Word: sinn
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...SPORTS SPECTACULAR (CBS, 2:30-4 p.m.). Frank Gifford and Marathon Swimmer Marty Sinn are the commentators on this repeat of the Hall of Fame Swimming and Diving championships at Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Also on the schedule are highlights of the Cleveland Browns' 1965 N.F.L. season...
Died. William Thomas Cosgrave, 85, Ireland's President from 1922 to 1932, an early member of the revolutionary Sinn Fein and active participant in the bloody 1916 uprising, who then sided with the moderates accepting Britain's offer of self-rule, in 1922 became President of the Irish Free State, working ably to put the exhausted country on its feet, establish an efficient legislature, stabilize finances and improve agriculture, but still lost to Eamon de Valera in 1932, thereafter leading the opposition until retirement in 1944; of a heart attack; in County Dublin; Ireland...
...does not go loony; he goes mad! As it is, the character fails to grow, fails to come to grips with his own follies and errors, and--worst of all--fails to learn humility, which is what makes one willing to believe that Lear is truly "a man more sinn'd against than sinning" (a line, by the way, that Mr. Carnovsky feels obliged to repeat...
Porther & Shamrock. In economic terms, Ireland's insular ideal proved disastrous. True to the aims of the Sinn Fein (Ourselves Alone) movement, the government in the '30s discouraged foreign investment in Ireland, raised some of the world's highest tariff barriers to exclude British goods and protect new, highly inefficient domestic industry. The result of its belt tightening was a rising tide of emigrants that by 1956 reached 600,000, highest since the 1890s...
Heat with Peat. When Sinn Fein broke apart, young Lemass was the chief architect of De Valera's new Fianna Fail (Heroes of Destiny) Party, which came to power in 1932 and has been in office almost continually ever since. At 32, Lemass was the youngest member of De Valera's Cabinet and earned the affectionate Biblical sobriquet "Benjamin" (after Jacob's youngest son). Though Dev had taught mathematics-and is fervently believed by many fond compatriots to be one of the 13 men on earth who comprehend the theory of relativity-the Taoiseach had neither head...