Word: welshing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moor−English, Scottish, Welsh or Irish−is a scarred old playing field of English letters. It shows up again in Eric Linklater's entertaining new novel, The House of Gair, but only as a chilly device to drive the characters indoors. Indoors means, of course, the one and only house on the moor, with its hint of doomsday mysteries. But the real specialty of The House of Gair is light comedy, not heavy breathing...
...enthusiasms. When he left his home in Cuba (and his 25 cats) last year to revisit Africa after a lapse of two decades, he traveled by steamship. To reach a base camp on the rolling plains of British East Africa, the husky author and his fourth wife, Mary Welsh Hemingway, bumped painfully through rough country by truck...
...Communion service at 4 p.m., address a rally of church supporters, then deliver an evening sermon to a packed congregation. He was already suffering from a bad cold, caught at nightly outdoor meetings in the South Wales ports of Cardiff and Swansea and in the uplands on the English-Welsh border...
Everest, therefore, wears through almost a third of its 71 minutes before the expedition is safely stowed in its base camp at 18,000 ft. in the western cwm (a Welsh word that rhymes with doom), the colossal glacial ditch by which access to the peak is possible. From there to the summit is a lung-bursting matter of 46 days, with the camera dogging along for all but the last few thousand feet of the way. It sees some awesome things-avalanches down the vast chute of the cwm, in which ice blocks the size of a ten-story...
...court that he kept a Scoreboard in his officers' mess, recording the number of Mau Mau kills and captures. His company was aiming to raise its total to 50 kills, and to encourage his men he offered them a five-shilling (70?) bonus for every Mau Mau shot. Welsh Sergeant Major William Llewellyn, an eyewitness, testified that Captain Griffiths fired at one of two prisoners until the bullets "practically poured out of the man's stomach." And as he fired, said the sergeant, the captain shouted: "When the [Mau Mau] killed my horse, it screamed longer than...