Word: welsh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...average. Maurice Evans and Hallmark combined to produce a first-rate version of Emlyn Williams' The Corn Is Green. Eva Le Gallienne was crisply dictatorial as the do-gooding English spinster, while John Kerr smoldered like a burning coal as the boy brought from the bowels of a Welsh mine to the stately quadrangles of Oxford...
Born: July 28, 1904, in West Kirby, near Liverpool; his father was a prosperous doctor of Welsh descent...
...from the constant attempt to impose upon the church the state's own lower standards of morals?" Prime Ministers of Britain presumably need not even be Christians, let alone Anglicans, since there are no formal religious qualifications for the post; in the last 40 years they have included "a Welsh Baptist, a Scottish Presbyterian, a Unitarian, and now a man who has defied the church by remarrying after divorce...
...more than 25 minutes of the first half, those energetic cheerleaders seemed the best the Army could produce. Navy's Quarterback George Welsh, with his deadly pitching arm and his farflung halfbacks, was just too much. With deceptive ease, the Middies caught the opening kick-off and steamed 76 yds. for the first score of the game. It hardly seemed to matter that the extra-point kick was wide. Whenever Welsh dropped back to pass, the Navy line gave him plenty of time. And he was almost always on target. When the Army secondary dropped back to cover. Welsh...
...Little Time. Twice the Cadets got their hands on the ball, and twice were stopped cold. Quarterback Don Holleder dropped back to fire a left-handed pass and Welsh added insult to injury by intercepting. In the shivering stands, fans warmed up by arguing that Coach Earl Blaik should never have ruined Holleder, an All-America end, by trying to teach him how to run a T-formation offense. In the second quarter. Blaik called Holleder to the bench to give him a last-minute cram course in football strategy...