Word: welshman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he was 16, folks wagged their heads mournfully and predicted that Benjamin would break his father. But Horace Jones, a covered-wagon man who got the choicest piece of land in northwestern Missouri, would take a lot of breaking. A shrewd, hard-bitten Welshman, he founded the town of Parnell, ran the Parnell bank, and knew more about raising cattle than anybody in Nodaway County. He wanted Ben to become a banker, but that wasn't in the cards...
...Taffy Was a Welshman ..." In Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, Ronald George was fined ?5 and costs for stealing margarine from the table of Ellis Samuel, his host...
...major who forlornly misses each year's Derby. One is a blind Scottish boy who tries to break off with his girl. One is an ex-burglar who learns so much decency that he sacrifices repatriation for the sake of a fellow prisoner. One is a Welshman whose aging wife dies bearing their first child. A corporal, his close friend, embodies most of the sterling virtues of England's Common...
...Department of Public Information, which distributes painfully impartial U.N. news to the world. Arkady Alexandrovich Sobolev, a Soviet expert on international law and one of Russia's less prickly emissaries, heads the Department of Security Council Affairs. The others: Economics-David Kemp Owen, mountain-climbing, poetry-loving Welshman and Foreign Office career man; Administrative & Financial Services-Kentucky's thin-shelled John B. Hutson, former director of the tobacco, sugar, rice & peanuts division of AAA; Social Affairs-sharp-eyed Henri Laugier, former professor of physiology at the Sorbonne; Legal Affairs -Ivan Kerno, Czech jurist, veteran of the League...
Last week in London, ABCA (now minus the A for Army) had set out to make the citizen as well informed as the soldier was. BCA's boss was husky, soft-spoken William Emrys Williams, 49, the Welshman who ran ABCA. All ten of the young Army officers (now "demobbed") who turned out the Army leaflets, plus five other veterans, were at work on new ones, on topics ranging from the rising British airways to the falling British birthrate. The first (just out): Food and Famine...