Word: welshed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intention of letting Jackie get behind the wheel. The young man did not much care; he was too busy pursuing his first love-trap shooting. "I put more effort into it than I put now into my racing," he recalls. Between 1957 and 1962 he won the Irish, Welsh, English and British champion ships and was named as a substitute to the British Olympic trap team. Finally persuaded to race at Charterhall, where Clark had made his start several years earlier, Stewart finished third. To fool his mother, he says, "I snuck out to race under the nom de plume...
First in lilting Welsh, and then in a King's English, Britain's Prince Charles last week spoke those modest words to his countrymen in response to his in vestiture as Prince of Wales. Around the world millions watched the four hours of panoply and pageantry over satellite TV transmission. What the world saw was a slim, erect young man moving slowly and somewhat stiffly at first through one of royalty's rich, ancient rituals. But for the 80,000 or so who crowded in and around the ancient castle of Caernarvon, the mixture of Welsh informality...
...Lunch Search. Even so, the occasion was not entirely without the violence that Welsh nationalists had promised. Two young extremists were killed the night before the ceremony when explosives that they were carrying went off near train tracks in Abergele, where the royal family passed on its way to Caernarvon. Later, the train carrying the royal entourage was halted while police checked out one of dozens of bomb threats, and hours after Charles had left the castle, a British soldier burned to death inside an army minibus that had caught fire, possibly from a bomb...
Such minor indignities paled once the ceremony was underway. It began with a procession, almost two hours long, of soldiers in their dressiest uniforms, bards dressed in swirling blue-and-green togas, Welsh politicians in robes of office and British officials, including Prime Minister Harold Wilson, KEYSTONE in morning clothes. The royal family itself was rather subdued. Queen Elizabeth, carrying an Edwardian parasol, was done up in pale gold. Prince Philip wore the dark blue, braided uniform of a field marshal. Prince Charles, who waited in the Chamberlain tower until formally summoned by his mother, wore the No. 1 blues...
...Welsh-born Pop Singer Jones is the hottest entertainer in the U.S. Six of his nine LPs are on the Billboard chart, and the latest four have won gold records in the past two months. His weekly TV show on ABC is clobbering the competition as a summer rerun. For his two-week engagement at Manhattan's Copacabana in May, the lines began forming as early as 3 o'clock in the afternoon. The Flamingo paid him $280,000 for four weeks, and he paid them back by selling out every concert...