Word: welshed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Messiah. Boston also boasted a club unique in the U.S. Ten or twelve times a year, as their ancestors have done since 1837, members of the exclusive Harvard Musical Association go to their paneled clubrooms on Beacon Hill for a smoker of chamber music, beans, beer and Welsh rabbit...
...likes Americans but he is slightly afraid of tackling large groups of them, partly because of language difficulties. So far he has been to only two Boston parties; once there, he charmed everyone he met. He likes to take short walks around the neighborhood with his Welsh terrier...
...Britain, the offer kicked up less excitement than such a proposal would make in the U.S. Since 1944 many English and Welsh church schools, Catholic and non-Catholic, have been receiving government financial aid, to keep them up to the standards prescribed by the Ministry of Education in its campaign to improve primary education. In Scotland since 1918, Roman Catholic schools have been sold or leased to the government, and have been operating under a teaching agreement like the new proposal of England's bishops...
Author Firbank also had his moments of practical horse sense, such as they were. He always, for instance, packed a large quantity of good Welsh coal in his traveling trunk, as a precaution against inclement weather...
...Bevan's voice there were echoes of sad Welsh valleys as he said slowly: "I am a miner." Then, louder: "I was brought up in a mining family in a mining area and a steel area." Then the pounce, with hissing venom: "The right honorable gentleman's name was execrated...