Catchword: lily white

Filed under: English, Crime & Prisons, Police

Part of speech: n.

Quotation: Ever-tighter IRA internal security and the organisation’ use of “lily whites,” activists with little or no known history of involvement in violence who keep their distance from the Irish community in Britain, have been given as reasons for the recent successes of the IRA’s mainland campaign.

Article or Document Title:
“RUC is strongest thread in web spun to destroy the IRA”

Author:
Richard Ford, Stewart Tendler

Article, document, publication, web site:
Times

Publishing location:
London, England

Date of publication:
Apr. 23, 1992

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