Word: welshed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Omar Bradley, Walton with the paratroopers, Ragsdale on an American warship, British-born Dennis Scanlan on a British destroyer; White was attached to Montgomery's headquarters; Jack Belden was assigned to the American landing forces near Carentan; and Mary Welsh was flying around the airfields in Britain talking to returning flyers...
Socialist Greenwood had just lost a fight to expel Nye Bevan from the Party for a revolt against the topside line. He had even threatened to resign if Bevan were upheld. But on the showdown Greenwood had to eat his threat. Defiant Nye Bevan, a onetime Welsh miner and long a loud voice for Labor's militant left, had won a significant victory...
This is Mary Welsh, who covered the Battle of France for Lord Beaverbrook's London Express, got out .of Paris two jumps ahead of the Nazis, helped cover the Battle of Britain for TIME. Graebner has described her as "without doubt the ablest female journalist in London...
...gold resulted in widespread unemployment and suffering at home. But Norman knew that England's life-blood-her revenues from banking, foreign investments and insurance-depended on the integrity of the pound sterling. He also knew that a banker's reputation is fragile-he can only welsh once on an obligation...
...from being conciliatory, the Government award was the last straw. The South Welsh miners revolted against their own union leaders, got sympathetic support in other districts. Arthur Horner, militantly Communist union leader in South Wales, squirmed at the prospect of losing members and influence. Said he: "The men are in a hell of a mood. There used to be a time when a hymn would start them back, but not now. Disappointments have made them think the Government is pulling their...