Word: welshed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jones,' he said, 'do you happen to know anything about porridge? Real porridge I mean. Not Quaker oats. Perhaps being Welsh-you have a Welsh name...
...failure rate. For starters, recruits are sent crawling through noxious sheep-dips and marching over mountainous terrain in Wales carrying 55-lb. backpacks on a 37%-mile, 20-hr, trek. In one ten-day exercise, half-naked recruits are set down at the mouth of a Welsh valley, harried by deafening sirens and an infantry force firing real bullets. Those who pass these tests are then taught such skills as demolition, lock picking, sabotage, unarmed combat, mountaineering, skiing, underwater diving, field communication and parachute jumping. Constant practice in rescuing hostages in simulated situations on trains, aircraft and from buildings...
...case in point is Sculptor David Nash, whose work belongs in the general category of land art but is infused by a wit and sweetness usually absent from that genre. Nash lives in what must be the most sodden provincial seclusion the British Isles can offer-the Welsh village of Blaenau Ffestiniog, near which, 40 years ago, the National Gallery secreted its paintings to save them from the blitz. Nash assembles his sculptures from rough tree branches, trunks and slate. His projects include a sculpture of growing trees, topiarized into the form of a dome, a sylvan abstraction that will...