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Word: donnybrook (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make agreements that are useful with the Soviets, you are almost compelled to do it . . . with the heads of government." Still speaking for De Gaulle's benefit, Ike observed that "this means the Western heads of government must be coordinated among themselves, otherwise it would just be a Donnybrook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Pressing the Summit | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

...Donnybrook Estates. In Alexandria, La., six house wreckers showed up at the home of Paul Davis, removed half the roof, most of the upper story and the front porch before Davis arrived and told them they were tearing down the wrong house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 29, 1958 | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

...Donnybrook Estates. In Alexandria, La., six house wreckers showed up at the home of Paul Davis, removed half the roof, most of the upper story and the front porch before Davis arrived and told them that they were tearing down the wrong house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 31, 1958 | 3/31/1958 | See Source »

...Bishop Michael Browne: "Non-Catholics do not protest against the crime of conspiring to steal the children of a Catholic father, but they try to make political capital when a Catholic people make a peaceful and moderate protest." Even the venerable Taoiseach Catholic, Eamon de Valera, leaped into the Donnybrook: fethardism, he declared, is "ill-conceived, ill-considered and futile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Fethardism | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

...trail is like getting lost on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Teamed up with a big array of foreign flatfeet to perform his mission, Mature grandstands it like a one-man beachhead in dodging the stilettos of a murderous band of toughs who jump him in a sleazy Roman hotel. This Donnybrook provokes the most sensible twist of the entire plot: a Roman police captain, Mature's own colleague, orders him tossed into a cell in protective custody. The cop's undebatable reasoning: criminals are a much greater menace to Mature than he is to them. If only bungling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 19, 1957 | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

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