Word: wexford
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...countries for 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...
...guests, including Northern Ireland's Prime Minister Terence O'Neill, to a gala housewarming. The natives were delighted. Long envious of the outpouring of American sentimentality for the boozy, poetic republic to the south and of the stir created whenever a Kennedy came to call at Wexford, the citizens of Ulster could at last display a superfamily of their...
This turnabout in attitude stems from the ubiquity of the guides. "When I was in college, you had to hide in the toilet to read those things," recalls Jane Ferrar, wife of a Columbia English instructor, and a freelance writer of trots under the nom de plume of Jane Wexford. But students now carry them everywhere, college bookstores display them, and 15 million are sold annually. "As long as students will use study guides," argues Beebe now, "we may as well do our best to make sure that they are using good guides that are carefully prepared, accurate and thorough...
...Harvard man, his wife's name is Jacqueline, and for $200,000 he will become the new owner of Wexford, the Virginia hideaway built by the late President on Rattlesnake Mountain. But there the similarity ends, for Canton-born Quing Non Wong, 31, is Class of 1955 (a history and literature major), father of three daughters, and a Manhattan investment banker. Both he and his French wife are fond of horses, and since the local hunt club, Piedmont Fox Hounds, regularly traipses across the 40-acre estate, the Wongs are hoping that they will soon join the chase...
...York is around the corner. The purchase gives Jackie three homes, the others being a house at Hyannis Port and the new, ranch-style home in the ride-to-hounds country around Atoka, Va. On a visit to Atoka last weekend with the children, Jackie formally christened that house Wexford, after the Kennedy ancestral seat in Ireland...