Word: ulsterman
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...When Ulsterman Paul Burgess asked his mother to show him his birth certificate, she only hemmed & hawed. When Paul persisted, she sagged at the knees, confessed that his real surname was Mathry and that his "dead" father was actually serving a life sentence for killing a prostitute. Paul was stunned: he remembered his pa as a jolly fellow who cut paper boats, not ladies' throats. Afire to clear the old man, Paul hotfooted it to the English industrial town of Wortley, the scene of the crime...
...physics prize was divided between Britain's Sir John D. Cockcroft and Ulsterman E.T.S. Walton. Working as a team at Cambridge, England, they built a high-voltage machine in 1932, seven years before the discovery of uranium fission, which smashed lithium atoms, turning each into two helium nuclei and a powerful jolt of energy. The Cockcroft-Walton reaction is inefficient, but the energy that it produces is genuinely nuclear, released when mass is turned into energy...
Slight, blue-eyed Richard Andrew Palethorpe-Todd, 30, is a pleasantly chatty Ulsterman with an easy English accent. The son of a British army major, he drifted into acting while hanging around the English stage to pick up pointers on writing a play. In Scotland before the war, he was a cofounder, part-time director and actor of the Dundee Repertory Company, where he once played in The Hasty Heart, not as the Scot ("I wouldn't have dared in Scotland") but as the American ("And I wouldn't try that part in America...
After five days of match play, the task of turning back the Americans fell squarely on the broad shoulders of 200-lb. Ulsterman Sam McCready. Not many people had heard of 31-year-old Sam: a salesman for a London tobacco firm, he had never swung a club in the nationals before. But in the semifinals, there was Sam, wearing a fixed half-smile on his broad face. He teed off against Frank Stranahan. A brisk wind blew in from the Irish Sea. Between the wind and Sam McCready's smile, Stranahan's game folded up. He went...
...Field Marshal Sir Harold Rupert L. G. Alexander, 54, another Ulsterman. His next assignment: Governor-General of Canada...