Word: welshed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Welsh-born Sarah Thomas is a middle-aged widow working in Cambridge, England. Threatened by breast cancer, she seeks a "last" holiday in Ulster with two close Catholic friends, Caroline and Colum Moore, and a former lover, a Protestant left-wing journalist named James McNeil...
...hand behind this document, which was dated about 1440 by its discoverers. "I have 'serious reservations,' " he writes, "the polite scholarly term for saying that you suspect fakery." Growling about "phony voyages," he swiftly slaps down as nonsense the folk legend of Prince Madoc and the Welsh-speaking Indians...
...12th century, so the Madoc myth goes, a Welsh prince led a colony to America. "By some mysterious process," Morison marvels, "this colony became a Welsh-speaking Indian tribe which moved west from the Atlantic shore until it became the Mandan in the Far West...
...London last week with Husband Richard Burton for a holiday in Switzerland and the U.S. Burton, who is taking a percentage rather than a salary for his soon to be released film Villain, then plans to begin "hovering," as he puts it, "over the box office return like a Welsh bird of prey...
...involving three new silver coins and three bronze ones (see chart), the Decimal Currency Board launched a $3,000,000 educational campaign. Posters went on display in 950 cities and towns. Fifteen million copies of a decimal currency guide were sent to households throughout the country, including booklets in Welsh and Braille. Television spots urged: "Think decimal!" The BBC put a 13-year-old schoolboy named Sebastian on its breakfast program to explain to his foolish elders how simple decimalization is. Listeners loathed...