Word: welshed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evacuation were made before Munich, and they were being carried out as Chamberlain made his declaration of war speech. In a single week 2,000 pictures were removed in 64 special railway container vans-first to country houses and museums; then, after widespread raids began, to the Welsh caves. The caves were air-conditioned, equipped with a single-track narrow railway, and wired with a burglar alarm system...
...Corn Is Green (Warner) a very honest adaptation of Emlyn Williams' stage hit about the intrepid spinster who brought literacy to a Welsh coal town, has all sorts of well-intended ingredients, but as drama and as entertainment they come out lumpily, like somewhat heavy dumplings. There are several reasons. Besides the best one-that it wasn't really a very good play to begin with-the others are honorable minor defeats in an uphill battle. But they help explain why the movie, though it may well have a good run too, is less impressive than the play...
When World War I seemed lost, it was the "Welsh wizard" with the glib tongue and unwavering eye who patched up Britain's faith in victory. He smoothly talked the reluctant British High Command into accepting the leadership of "simple, honorable, absolutely fearless" Marshal Foch. An architect of the Versailles Treaty and the League of Nations (both of which he was accused of bungling), he lived to see both curl up in the flames of World...
...Germans' foothold on the Maas River was torn violently loose. They scuttled out of the Maas strongholds of Venlo and Roermond. When the Ninth and the Canadian First Army (which includes some English, Scottish and Welsh units) joined forces near Geldern (see map), the pocket was empty except for a few stragglers. Berlin said that the British Second Army had moved forward into the vacuum...
...county regiments-the Dorsets, Devons, Durhams, York and Lanes-and the Scots and Welsh Border regiments marveled at this gaffer of the old Army, admired him in the usual unprintable phrases, gave him a cheer. They had fought their way through mountain jungles; tough fighting lay ahead before the last Jap would be driven from Burma. But they were in lush valleys...