Word: welsh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their chances with butter-fingered eagerness. When it wasn't fumbling. Army moved well. Then, like the officers and gentlemen they will some day be, the middies made their guests feel at home with some exasperating fumbles of their own. But aside from that unnecessary politeness, Quarterback George Welsh was able to send his backs scampering for long gains off the Army flanks. And All-America End Ron Beagle was always a big stumbling block for the cadet attack. Time after time he pulled runners down from behind, smothered passes before they were thrown. Almost singlehanded he broke...
Next day Bevan addressed the House. As always, the House listened with fascination to the Welsh lilt and the demagogic half-truth. He was not against German rearmament, Bevan insisted, but "the pace and altitude of that armament...
...Navy just 30 minutes to work up a head of steam. Then, for the next half hour, the Middies pushed favored Notre Dame all over the field. On defense Navy's Ron Beagle seemed like a fifth man in the Irish backfield; on offense he made Quarterback George Welsh look like the hottest passer around. Badly mauled, the Irish just managed to hang on to their six-point lead. But the going was so rough during the last few minutes that Notre Dame Quarterback Ralph Guglielmi had to run out the clock by slithering through the mud toward...
...heels of the Farm Bureau charges, a member of the Board of Regents, J. Leroy Welsh, waded into the fray. "Several times I have complained about the writings and speeches of this individual made over the state and have brought this to the attention of the University." Speaking only for himself he said, "I am glad to have a group like these farmers pay attention to this sort of activity and call attention to it. I have no brief for anyone in a tax-supported institution who favors the destruction of the free enterprise system...
...Italians seemed fairly baffled by the refined music and the obscure Jamesian plot, made no clearer by the strange language (the libretto, by Welsh-English Writer Myfanwy Piper, was sung in English). But the audience politely brought the fine English cast back for eight curtain calls. Wrotem Il Tempo of Britten's score: "A type of anthology of modern musical taste." Corriere della Sera applauded Britten's "sinister castle of sounds," but found it "difficult to establish even approximately what the new opera is meant to signify...