Word: welshed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jackson, who held an appointment as associate professor, is an authority on the culture and language of Ireland. He joined the faculty as a Visiting Lecturer in 1939. The new professor is an author of numerous articles on Irish and Welsh literature...
...Bevan, the hard-eyed lad from the Welsh mines, knows why. The drive for state maternalism is not primarily the work of doctrinaires, Marxist or otherwise; it is a distillation of the bitter experience of Bevan and his comrades. Whether the brew is poison or not, it has been a long time cooking...
Said Bevan to the Tredegar Aid Society: "I believe that orthopedic surgery can be of great benefit to many miners and I would fight all the doctors of the British Medical Association to prove my point." Or he would cry in his Welsh singsong: "If a specialist is away in Bristol, why should we not be able to send our men to him? Why should not a miner have the right to the best treatment...
...elections since it came to power in 1945. To fill the seat left vacant when Hammersmith's Laborite W. T. Adams died last January, Labor had picked a 33-year-old ex-R.A.F. chaplain and Oxford don named Tom Williams. Tom's father was a Welsh miner who came home permanently crippled from World War I. His mother died when he was three. By scholarships and hard work, Tom fought his way through the Universities of Wales and Oxford, picking up honors as he went. He became a Baptist minister...
...strutted again into the green-carpeted ring at Madison Square Garden for a go at 22 rivals for the best-in-group prize (boxers, Great Danes, collies, German shepherds, etc., classified as "working breeds"), and won again. It was easier than baiting boars. When the six group-finalists-a Welsh terrier, a Dalmatian, a miniature pinscher, an Irish setter, a greyhound and Zazarac Brandy-gathered for the showdown, it took tuxedoed Judge Tom Carruthers III just 15 minutes to single out Brandy as best-in-show-and dog-of-the-year...