Word: wellington
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much had happened, too much had changed. The Duke of Wellington once remarked that "a great country cannot wage a little war." Viet Nam. once geographically obscure and utterly remote from almost any American's consciousness, had become, blindly, incredibly, an event almost as important to the nation's culture as its own Civil War. Viet Nam, in fact, grew into a kind of spiritual civil war in the U.S. Thus, even if the physical battle, or at least U.S. participation in it, recedes, its traumatic effect upon the American self-image will persist. The war has gone...
Next day a series of bombs went off; one of them devastated a stretch of Belfast's Wellington Street and killed a British officer. Another 18 persons were injured in a blast in Lisburn, the site of British army headquarters...
Charles U. Daly, the University's vice president for Government and Community Affairs, had been standing alertly on the sidelines, ready for just such an eventuality. Quickly removing his Wellington boots, he called for a pair of Adidas track shoes, Bok's if necessary, in order that the Administration's floor leadership could be passed on with a minimum of confusion. But Daly could not fill Bok's shoes, and as the game progressed, it became apparent that the Administration was in for serious trouble...
Charles U. Daly, the University's vice president for Government and Community Affairs, had been standing alertly on the sidelines, ready for just such an eventuality. Quickly removing his Wellington boots, he called for a pair of Adidas track shoes, Bok's if necessary, in order that the Administration's floor leadership could be passed on with a minimum of confusion. But Daly could not fill Bok's shoes, and as the game progressed, it became apparent that the Administration was in for serious trouble...
That feeling was running strong in the Republic all week long. A bomb damaged Dublin's monument to the Duke of Wellington. Airport workers refused to service British airplanes, forcing flight cancellations. Toward the end of the week a mob of more than 1,000 badly damaged the British Rail ways office in Cork with fire bombs...