Word: welshing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Walk is no mere docudrama or soapbox spiel. Like Shaw, who might have written this play, Blessing evokes his characters as men and not just mouthpieces. He is greatly aided by Director Des McAnuff's understated staging, fine performances from Josef Sommer as the Soviet and Kenneth Welsh as the American, and Bill Clarke's remarkable set: a soil-capped hillside, 29 tree trunks shooting straight up into the skies and, on the far back wall, a framed picture of yet another woods, a reminder that these conversations will echo around the world...
Finally, your reporter created controversy where none existed. My comments were confined to the Catholic Church's position on the use of condoms as a method of artificial contraception. I recall making no remarks on the issue of "safe sex." Timothy A. Welsh...
Much of the remaining story reads like an Evelyn Waugh comedy, told from the point of view of the butt of the joke. The longer Burgess's education proceeds, the more unqualified he becomes for useful employment. He meets and later marries a spirited Welsh classmate at Manchester University who has an idiosyncratic notion of marital fidelity: "There were plenty of attractive people around and it would be a shame and a waste not to find out what they were like with their clothes off." World War II offers Burgess nearly six years of wasted time in uniform; he gets...
TOTAL OFFENSE Rushing Passing Total Name. Pos., School Att. Gain Loss Net Att. Cmp. Yds. Yds. Sean Welsh, QB, Prin. 4 4 19 -15 36 20247 232 Jeff Johnson, FB, Crn. 16 167 0 167 0 0 0 167 Mark Donovan, QB, Brn. 6 4 13 -9 17 9 17 3 164 Chris Flynn. RB. Penn 15 142 0 142 0 0 0 142 Dave Gabianelli, QB, D. 4 1 22 -21 26 14 16 3 142 Dave Putelo, QB, Col. 11 19 46 -27 25 12168 141 Jim Crocicchia, QB, Penn...
...London Standard photo of Schoolboy Barry Tavner, 13, displaying his beaten bottom after he received five strokes from his headmaster for getting low grades. Ironically, Tavner, who attends a private school, will not be affected by the ban. Others have long advocated allowing teachers to strike. Said a Welsh councilman: "Sending a teacher into a classroom with no cane is like sending a boxer into the ring with one hand tied behind his back...