Word: welshed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...10th century, cats were established as mousers. The Welsh defined the legal worth of cats: a seasoned mouser, astonishingly enough, brought four pennies, about the worth of a lamb. By the 17th century, however, the devil, unwelcome and omnipresent, had been doing his worst through the feline. In 1699, for instance, at the Swedish town of Mora, 300 children were accused of employing demon cats to steal butter, cheese and bacon. Fifteen of the children were killed, and every Sunday for a year, 36 were whipped before the church doors. By the mid-18th century, the cat was back...
...French pot-au-feu. Even shepherd's pie, particularly in Garmey's jazzed-up version, can be a treat. Indeed, a number of traditional dishes are in danger of becoming fashionable. Among them: lemony Sussex Pond pudding; Hindle Wakes, a prune-flavored cold poached chicken dish; Welsh onion cake and cockie leekie (chicken-leek) soup; chicken stovies, a succulent Scottish stew; syllabub, the English answer to zabaglione...
...expected, there were a number of protests by Welsh nationalists who have long sought to break the country's 445-year-old union with Britain. As the royal Rolls approached the 13th century castle city of Caernarvon, a young woman leaped forward, spraying the car with white paint before she was whisked away by some of the 600 Special Branch policemen guarding the prince and princess. Outside the castle, demonstrators chanted, "Charles, go home...
Poised and winsome throughout, Di committed only one small gaffe. Presented with a set of small silver bowls, she instinctively flipped one over to check the hallmark. She avoided the same mistake later, when a group of Welsh farmers presented her with two other gifts: Sandra, a seven-month-old heifer, and a ewe. "I am sorry there is only one of her," said the pleased Charles at one point. "I haven't got enough wives to go around...
Gail Hurst, a teacher for twelve years in San Diego, transferred out of a DISTAR program after three months. Says she: "I didn't like the robot, parroting answers the students had to give. " Yet DlSTAR's striking results led San Diego Superior Court Judge Louis Welsh last year to request the program to help upgrade minority schools. Joan Gutkin, Follow Through coordinator at New York's P.S. 1 37, points out that 70% of her second-graders in 1980 scored above the 50th percentile on the California Achievement Test, in contrast to only...