Word: welshing
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...Trotsky with an Alpine ice ax hidden under his coat. Delon claimed to be so wrapped up in his role that he was afraid he might actually kill Burton. "There are plenty of French actors in the world, but if you kill me you kill one-sixth of all Welsh actors," said Richard, forgetting for a moment that nearly every Welshman is an actor of sorts...
...approach has spawned novel problems. Professors face a nightmare in grading students on intangibles like imagination, integrity and initiative. Moreover, the basic idea has so far flunked the ultimate business test: profit. No student enterprise has yet run in the black-even though many are guided by John L. Welsh, an S.M.U. staff member and former businessman, who sometimes invests in the schemes himself with the unabashed intention of "making a lot of money...
Denise Levertov ranges more widely and experiments more ingeniously with poetic form. She was born 47 years ago in England, the child of a Welsh mother and a Jewish intellectual who had become an Anglican priest. She lived through London's bombing raids and moved to the U.S. in 1948. Her commitment to matters political in part reflects the concerns of her husband, Writer Mitchell Goodman, who last year, along with Dr. William Spock, was convicted for urging students to resist the draft. But Levertov's most recent verse has been increasingly personal, an austere mixture of poise...
...Commonwealth's sugar islands. It said that members of the "enlarged community" would join to "safeguard the interests of countries whose economies depend to a large degree on primary products, particularly sugar." Rippon felt that the wording was sufficiently strong. After all, if there were any inclination to welsh on that promise once Britain was inside the Market, London could threaten to make things difficult for the one-crop French African countries that are protected by special trading arrangements...
Like her heroine, Author Gallie is Welsh-born. But she has got the Gaelic in her, and in the country of the word she is no stranger...