Word: welshed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...race to keep up with rapidly rising demand keeps power in the news around the world each week; last week was no exception. Britain was building the world's most powerful nuclear station on an island off the Welsh coast, and two private utilities announced that they will build West Germany's second commercial atomic plant near Lingen in, of all places, the coal-rich Ruhr...
When Negroes were first brought to America, Handlin said, no racial distinction was made between them and such people as Irish and Welsh indentured servants. A whole generation passed, he said, before the greater cultural difference of the Negroes and the involuntary nature of their servitude caused them to be distinguished from other slaves, and it was not until the nineteenth century that the identity of "Negro" with "slave" was established...
Died. Lord Evans, 60, Windsor court physician since 1949, a Welsh kidney specialist who signed the death certificate of King George VI, attended the births of Prince Charles, Prince Andrew and Princess Anne, in 1956 advised Prime Minister Anthony Eden to resign during the Suez crisis for reasons of health; of cancer; in London...
...their two versions into one joint translation. Scholarly Catholic missionaries are collaborating with Protestant ministers in translating the Bible into Singhalese, Indonesian, Swahili, Zulu and Japanese. In Wales the Catholic Archbishop of Cardiff has agreed to cooperate with the Protestant and Anglican churches in sponsoring a new translation into Welsh. Many French Protestant churches use the excellent "Jerusalem Bible," translated by Dominican Fathers Roland de Vaux, Pierre Benoit and other Catholic scholars of Jordan's Ecole Biblique...
Aneurin Bevan, by Michael Foot. A good, sympathetic biography of the Welsh mine worker who went on to become an ardent Socialist, a brilliant parliamentarian and, for years, the fieriest voice in Britain's Labor Party...