Word: welshing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Robert Minhinnick: Reading from Modern Welsh Poets, Rabb Lecture Hall, Boston Public Library...
...remaining prefects, Shawn H. MacDonald '88 and Timothy A. Welsh '88, organized a trip to New Hampshire scheduled for today. Welsh said the two were planning to rent a van to take eight freshmen for an outing in the country...
DIED. Laura Ashley, 60, Welsh-born designer who with her husband Bernard turned her Victorian-inspired, flower-sprigged fabrics into ruffled, romantic fashions and a multimillion-dollar international clothing and housewares empire; of head injuries sustained in an accidental fall; in Coventry, England. What began in 1953 with tea towels silk-screened on the kitchen table of their London flat and sold to local shops became in 1967 the first Laura Ashley shop in London and is today a family-run business encompassing more than 200 shops from Milan to Melbourne, 70 of them...
...unusual result is a comedy of mourning, an affirmation of attachments to the dead. Ethan visits his father in dreams; Leary's closest companion is Edward, his son's Welsh corgi. Unruly and nippy, the dog requires the services of Muriel, an obedience trainer at Meow-Bow kennel. She is an untypical breed in "truncated black suede boots with witchy toes and needle heels," a streetwise stray looking for a home. The Maryland working girl eventually gets a leash around Macon, who wants his wife back but breaks a leg and has to move in with his brothers and sister...
...labored, and he felt so weak that just brushing his teeth was exhausting. "I'm tired of being tired," he told DeVries. Doctors estimated he had only two to three weeks left to live. His family urged him to try the artificial heart. "We % wanted it desperately," said Diana Welsh, 30, the oldest of his three children, "but it had to be his decision...