Word: welshing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enjoyed the contrasts: Harvard's tone balloons out round and warm, and projects best, as in the Welsh folk songs arranged by Davison--dense, pondering textures. But Yale thrusts out its lines with thinner but sharper tone, singing Leisring's O Fillii et Feliae with great verve...
...Gypsy Caravan. Augustus John was born in the Welsh seacoast town of Tenby, the son of the leading barrister in town. He discovered his talent for drawing early, at 18 entered the University of London's Slade School of Fine Art. He let his hair and beard grow, adopted whatever garb-flowing smocks, trailing scarves, bright bandannas-that seemed appropriate to a budding genius. Thus the legend of Augustus John began...
...kicks a keeper to death and, in the process, as is obligatory these days in symbolic works, emasculates him. In the book's second third, the irascible old men who run the zoo squabble violently over a plan to transport the animals to a game preserve on the Welsh border. But the energy of their manias is fussed away to little effect, for in the final chapters, rather irrelevantly, there is a war. Using conventional weapons (the U.S. and Russia have jointly threatened to obliterate any nation using atomic bombs), the countries of Europe overrun England. The book ends...
...high ground clearance (for traversing rocky terrain), special gears (for hill-climbing power), and waterproofed engines (for fording streams). Bounced like Yo-yos by their bucking bikes, they must make their own repairs in case of breakdown, take care of their own first aid. Spills are common: in the Welsh trial. Russia's Vikton Pylajev broke both legs; five other motorcyclists somehow escaped serious injury when they plunged, one after another, down a 60-ft. embankment. Fatigue is universal: 86 competitors failed to finish...
Even before his inauguration. John Kennedy knew he would have to start casting about for a new U.S. intelligence chief: Central Intelligence Agency Director Allen Welsh Dulles told the President elect that he hoped to retire within a year. After the disaster of the Cuba invasion, in which CIA estimates and planning came under heavy fire, the question of Dulles' successor was a common subject of Washington gossip. Last week, in a brief public ceremony at the Newport. R.I., Naval War College, President Kennedy announced that Dulles, 68, would retire in November after eight years...