Word: ulsterman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Somehow the McCourts got by, on driblets from Eire's dole and Angela's uppity kin, who berated her for marrying a sodden Ulsterman. Christmas dinner was no stuffed goose, but a lowly pig's head. No wonder young Frank dimly viewed Catholic priests preaching sacrifice to the pews while lorries delivered riches to their rectories. "Lent, my arse," he mused. "What are we to give up when we have Lent all year long...
That tempers were high was demonstrated when Silva collided with Ulsterman Gary Hughes in front of the scorer's table at midfield. Shoves were exchanged, curses flew, and eventually Head Coaches Trevor Adair (Brown) and Stephen Locker (Harvard) exchanged words from either side of the midfield stripe...
...Libya. All that stood between the Nazis and Alexandria was the strongpoint at the arid village of El Alamein, 70 miles to the west. A worried Churchill sent Montgomery, an eccentric, bullheaded disciplinarian, to head the Eighth Army. In spite of frantic pleas from London, Monty -- as the Ulsterman asked his soldiers to refer to him -- took his time, rebuilding troop morale and stocking up on ammunition. Churchill wanted him to counterattack by September 1942. Montgomery chose to wait until Oct. 23. By that time the Eighth Army outnumbered Axis forces 195,000 men to 104,000 and had more...