Word: welshed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...intellectual coffers of the Darwin family, he often visited his renowned grandfather Charles Darwin before his death in 1882. His father Francis Darwin was one of three of Charles's sons who were knighted for their contributions to science. Bernard spent a good deal of his childhood at his Welsh grandmother's estate, as his mother died in childbirth...
Callaghan's gamble on slicing through such secondary matters with the guillotine could have proved a deft ploy. Had it passed, the devolution bill, carrying the hopes of important Scottish and Welsh constituencies, would have been hard to turn down. But too many M.P.s of all parties resented the attempt to end the debate. Then the Tory shadow spokesman on devolution, Francis Pym, proposed an alternative-an all-party convention to discuss the whole devolution matter. The adroit Tory maneuver may have encouraged wavering Laborites to defect on the guillotine vote...
...Chinese relationship to minimize the possibility of a swing in China toward greater normalization with the Soviet Union. [But] I don't think the U.S. can simply abandon the security treaty with Taiwan ... The U.S. cannot be a viable guarantor of anyone's existence if we welsh on a commitment to maintain the survival of a particular party...
Hume suggests the British government has a major responsibility for finding a solution. "They're the sovereign government. They've got all the authority and all the power." But he says he fears that a number of factors--the growth of Scottish and Welsh nationalism, Britain's ever-increasing economic woes, and the growing number of Britons who are simply fed up with the whole Ulster affair--may result in a postponement of British attempts to seek a settlement, or even worse, the withdrawal of British troops before a political settlement is reached...
...Mary Welsh Hemingway, the fourth and last wife of Ernest Hemingway, was 36 and already twice married when she bumped into Papa, then 44 and Jeep-bouncing in journalistic pursuit of World War II. The place was Paris, in the summer of 1944. The third time they met he declared, "I want to marry you," adding: "You're beautiful, like a May fly." Mary, a war correspondent for TIME, turned in her uniform and her press card to become Hemingway's "Pickle" or his "Kitten," as he referred to her in the mellow moments...