Word: welsh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jones's title refers to the war as it was fought by "amateur soldiers" of a Welsh regiment-"how glad we thought we were to step outside its brackets at the end of '18." In the regiment is Private John Ball, who goes off to France, endures six rainy months in the trenches, then finds combat ended for him with a bullet in the thigh...
...week of disappointment for marital deathwatchers anticipating the Roman springing of Mrs. Fisher, Liz's on-screen Caesar, Rex Harrison, 54, produced cheerier connubial copy. Two and a half years after the death of Third Wife Kay Kendall, he was wed at Genoa's city hall to Welsh Actress Rachel (Satur day Night and Sunday Morning) Roberts, 34, the Baptist minister's daughter who lately has been Rexy's favored traveling companion...
...announced reason: disgust with the lobbying and self-promotion increasingly expected of Oscar seek ers. Said Scott: "I take the position that actors shouldn't be forced to out-advertise and out-stab each other." - A literary lode of remarkable proportions was brought to Manhattan by Mary Welsh Hemingway, whose pursuit of the unpublished works of her late husband Ernest took her from a Havana bank vault to the back room at Sloppy Joe's saloon in Key West. She collected a possible four novels, dozens of stories and sketches ("It's his work - you could smell
...friend drove him and his wife, Mary Welsh, to their house in Ketchum, Idaho. "He watched the road a great deal; he was concerned about reaching each appointed destination-seemed worried about the gas supply, the tires, and the road, and followed their progress constantly on a large map which he carried." About 7 o'clock two mornings after they arrived, "he took the final positive action of his life. Like a samurai who felt dishonored by the word or deed of another, Ernest felt his own body had betrayed him. Rather than allow it to betray him further...
...field approach is less specialized than it sounds. The reading is prodigious; more than 200 books a year is average. "Natural sciences'' run from anatomy to zoology, not just physics or chemistry alone. "History" includes economics, government and sociology. "English" involves intimacy with Early Irish, Early Welsh, Medieval Latin and modern French, along with the full range of English prose and poetry...