Word: welshed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, eager to face the world for a change, Ann hobbled out of an orthopedic hospital in the little Welsh-marches town of Oswestry; she was walking awkwardly on two canes, but far happier than she had been in years. In the past eight months, Orthopedic Surgeon David Lloyd Griffiths had pared her down to a mere six feet...
...occasional Indian or African studying at Oxbridge or importing tea in London was nothing but a pleasant reminder of the many-splendored variety of the British Empire, and the exotic babble of Hindu and Jamaican dialects was merely a quaint phenomenon of sailors' families settled in remote Welsh seaports like Tiger Bay. Then, when a large number of dark-skinned Asians, Africans and West Indians began flocking to Britain in the early 1950s, the British at first consoled themselves with the thought that these tropical people had only come to earn a nest egg, and would return...
...11th minute of the last period that proved disastrous. At 10:03 Welsh deflected Dan Hogan's shot under Welch to tie the score. Just 13 seconds later George Semler skated all alone down the right wing and beat Welch with a fine shot to the far side...
...first anguished twinge comes one evening when he invites Connor to the top-drawer Shore Club for the perverse I purpose of seeing him bankrupted at backgammon. Instead, Connor winds up $4,000 ahead, the well-born clubmen welsh on their losses, and Thompson begins to question himself. The answers he tries out are, successively, drinking, urinating on the Shore Club walls, and letting himself be cuckolded by, of all people, Connor. The disintegration of Lock Thompson evokes less pity or terror than tedium. Though Author Wetmore has a palate for sour-mash dialogue, he puts into a quart bottle...
Charles P. Price, University Preacher, will lead the services, with carols and anthems sung by the the University Choir under the direction of John Ferris, University Organist and Choirmaster. The program includes works by Bach Praetorius, Distler, Sweelinck, Britten, Billings, Welsh, and Holst...