Word: welched
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps the adventurous ones had not liked Riley--she never looked me in the eye the whole time she was explaining how prolific all the Society's "brilliant" writers were, and her spiel varied somewhat with the official line. For instance, she said, "You know, of course, that Mr. Welch [Robert Welch, Founder of the Society] learned to read at age two" --the official biography says he was three. And she told me that John Birch, who was a fundamentalist missionary to China in the early 1940's and later became an intelligence agent for Gen. Clair Chennault in China...
...Riley agrees with the rest of the Society on one of its most coherent themes--hero worship of Robert Welch. Riley told me that "Mr. Welch was reading Greek and Latin at age 6, knew algebra by 8, went to college at 12." Andrew Lane, a full-time employee who answers Society members' complaints and questions, called Welch "a brilliant man, an historian of the first rank. He read Ridpath's History of the world--that's nine volumes you know--by age 7." My tour guide, Frank Gotch, who had just come from Texas to work with Lane, made...
...also psychologically by a mastectomy, or removal of a cancerous breast, women who have undergone the operation often withdraw into inactivity and self-pity. But a dozen Californians who have gone through mastectomies have a livelier outlook on life. Thanks to a program of dance therapy developed by Diana Welch, 41, an artist-in-residence at the University of Santa Clara, they have been able to take advantage of the graceful, flowing action of classical ballet to regain fuller use of arms whose movements had been limited by the scarring produced by their operations. In the process, they also regain...
...therapy program, now one year old, was developed by Dancer Welch after she learned that the mother of one of her students was having difficulty adjusting to her mastectomy. The program has won the endorsement of doctors, physical therapists and the American Cancer Society. But its strongest supporters are its direct beneficiaries. The women, all between the ages of 32 and 64, meet for an hour and a half each week in Welch's airy studio to practice pliés and ronds de jambe, and to share their experiences...
...INDIANAPOLIS: Former Republican Congressman William Hudnut handily defeated Democratic businessman Robert Welch...