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Word: stript (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...help. The French or the Spanish would send a few ships-like Khrushchev sending his missiles halfway to Cuba-and another rising would fail, until a mood of fatalism set in and the old warlike mockery became heavily larded with cries of lament and self-pity: "Poor Wexford, stript naked, hangs high on the cross,/With her heart pierced by traitors and slaves." The warrior, the lugubrious drunk and the ironist all took up residence in the same skull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: OBSERVATIONS UPON THE IRISH | 6/20/1969 | See Source »

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