Word: wakes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Poles live there now, and the children of those proud Irish immigrants have long since moved away to a place where everyone is just American. "Irish America" is dead, and Corry knows it; so rather than trying to resurrect the victim he is content to hold a nice Irish wake, full of funny stories and bittersweet memories and a lot of healthy reminiscences about the dear departed. As anyone who has ever attended an Irish wake knows, there's no better way to brace yourself for a funeral than to mix your tears with a few good laughs. In that...
...other four schools were left in a wake of peels as Malone and partner romped to an easy triumph. How did they imaginatively use the banana? Your guess is almost as good as mine, but as Malone stated last night while munching on a Chiquita, "I've only got a year and a quarter left of school excuses. If I ever did anything like that after college, they'd arrest...
...himself. He had what is probably the most favorable press coverage of any politician in the state. Reporters find him extremely accessible and considerate--unlike most Boston politicians, he returns reporters' calls promptly and always provides clever quips. When the House created an Ethics Committee last month in the wake of the conviction of two state senators for extortion, Frank said, "Peer policing doesn't even work at West Point. The Committee should be banned with saccharin as an artificial sweetener...
Alarmist questions? Perhaps. Nonetheless, they were raised last week in the wake of the Administration's first face-to-face encounter with the Russians. It was an obvious setback. Cyrus Vance returned from his visit to Moscow as Secretary of State shaken by the Soviets' brusque dismissal of two U.S. proposals for reviving the long-stalled SALT talks (TIME, March...
...Mass primary, just slightly behind Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace and well ahead of Jimmy Carter, Champion couldn't pull enough votes to get on the delegate's train to New York. One might have thought that Champion's political career would end there. But in the wake of Jimmy Carter's march through the primaries and his choice of Cabinet nominees, Champion was about to find resurrection...