Word: welshing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Australia's Physicist Edward G. Bowen first proposed the startling theory that the earth's rainfall is strongly influenced by showers of space dust, most meteorologists howled him down. But Welsh-born Bowen is hard to discourage. For eight years, whenever he could take time from his job as chief of the Radiophysics Division of Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, he searched for evidence to buttress his argument. He found a hopeful amount, and by last week Physicist Bowen had become something of a meteorological hero. After hearing Bowen talk at the International...
...United States or the state government of Pennsylvania, as you feel appropriate." But from his personal treasury World War II Brigadier Lloyd coughed up the original value of the fence-largely, he explained, because the presumed ravager of St. Peter's had been, like himself, of Welsh descent and a Royal Artillery officer...
...discouraged by lukewarm critical reception, Harrison announced that he would abandon Nigel Dennis' August for the People by mid-month. Among the lesser troupers who will be made jobless by Harrison's decision was the gifted actress who portrayed his mistress Rachel Roberts, 33, daughter of a Welsh Baptist minister and favored traveling companion of aspiring knight bachelor Harrison...
Leaving her 13-acre Finca Vigia estate and its 5,500-volume library to "the Cuban people-not the government," Mary Welsh Hemingway gathered together "a mountain of papers" from a bank vault in nearby Havana and returned to the States. Describing herself as "totally ignorant on political matters," the widow of Nobel-Laureate Ernest Hemingway remained tight-lipped about the Castro regime ("For some of our friends in Cuba, the change in government has been better and for some, worse") as she laid over in Tampa prior to "going to New York to talk with lawyers about the estate...
...Canadian identity, says Johnson, is not nearly so frail as the nationalists think it is. "If it were true that economic integration leads to a loss of identity, how could one explain the survival of minority and regional groups such as the Scottish and Welsh in England?" Rather than hasten U.S.-Canadian union, argues Johnson, an even closer economic integration of the two countries would only improve Canadian living standards, and thus give Canada the means to follow its own political and social course...