Word: wexford
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...heroically influential person of the 20th century was Andy Warhol. He took everyday culture and turned it into art. Warhol's work was original. It gives the observer the feeling that the person who made it wasn't like everyone else, that this artist was an individual. AMANDA MICHELS Wexford...
There's something inherently smirk-inducing about a trade dispute over bananas. You've seen it in the papers in headlines like BANANA SPLIT or GOING BANANAS. But Clark Davis isn't laughing. One day the quality-assurance engineer was contentedly playing in the basement of his Wexford, Pa., home with his N-gauge model railroad--three lines spread over 36 sq. ft. of diorama, styled after turn-of-the-century Europe. The next day, Davis, 66, heard from his supplier of German-made Fleischman engines that not only could the price be doubling but the supplier's hobby shop...
Just five months before his death, John Kennedy traveled through an adoring Irish countryside and was touched by the tune The Boys of Wexford, which was played or sung at roadside stops and official ceremonies. Kennedy couldn't get enough of the song and told his staff. Shortly after he got home, the Marine Band had its own foot-tapping arrangement ready...
DIANA NAPPER, 38; WEXFORD, PA.; housewife and mother Her best friend, Carol Jo Weiss Friedman, had a vision that Napper would create something to make people more aware of breast cancer. So Napper designed the crystal-and-pearl Glimmer of Hope pin in memory of Friedman, who died of the disease in 1990. Almost 2,000 pins have been sold, raising nearly $24,000 for research. The proceeds will go to Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh. Napper says the pin represents a bond among women: "Even those of us who don't have breast cancer are afraid...
David is acutely aware of his capacity for accomplishment, and of how far he has come from Donegal and County Wexford. In the course of a two-hour conversation, David mentioned three times that he had won the Nationals and World Championship...