Word: welshing
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...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...
...While a Welsh men's choir sang Rock of Ages and a cheering crowd waved Union Jacks, the civil governor of the province of Cadiz, Mariano Baquedano, last week placed a key in the brass lock of the gate that for 16 years had separated Spain from the British crown colony of Gibraltar. The lock would not budge. Embarrassed, Baquedano handed the key to a Spanish policeman, who also wrestled nervously with the reluctant mechanism. At one minute past the appointed hour of midnight, the lock finally gave way, and the large green gate swung open...
Hitachi's Welsh plan...
Father: Besides me and you? Well, only about 20 so far. The newspapers don't like it. Look at this in the Daily Mail: YOU'RE TOO OLD AT 35. THE WELSH HAVE A WORD FOR IT-BUT IT'S NOT FIT TO PRINT. I saw this headline in the Times: "OVER HILL" AT 35 OFFER CAUSES FURY...