Word: australian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Longwood Cricket Club in Chestnut Hill, Mass., Australia was matched with Czechoslovakia in the Davis Cup interzone finals. After 27 countries had been eliminated, the survivors were fighting for the right to challenge the U.S. (last year's winner) next fortnight. Missing were the top 1947 Australian Davis Cuppers: Dinny Pails had turned pro, and John Bromwich (who hates airplanes) had refused to fly to the U.S. Australia was counting on overage (35) Captain Adrian "Quist, the national singles champion...
...scrapped the U.S. plans for the ceremony, sent American subordinate officers to the rear of the platform, ruled out friendly U.S. messages to the people of Hiroshima. As honor guests on the platform he installed the members of an Australian parliamentary delegation. When he rose to speak, he briefly delivered MacArthur's greetings, then referred to the bombing of Hiroshima in words the Japanese have not heard for some time. Said Brasshat Robertson: "This disaster was your own fault. . . The punishment given to Hiroshima was only part of the retribution of the Japanese people as a whole...
...Australian Bushmen...
Said a sputtering BBC announcer: "It makes me furious-absolutely furious!" At Nottingham, England, in the famed Test Matches (Britain v. Australia), an Australian cricketer was sending down "bumpers" (a beanball type of bowling that bounced up into the batsman's face). Every time he bowled, the audience cut loose with the British equivalent of Brooklynese. Even the tea-sippers in the pavilion joined in the vulgar booing. What was cricket coming...
...correspondent in Java had cabled TIME, offering a future story on truce negotiations, outlining the terms of the still confidential U.S.-Australian proposal. TIME did not print the information. By complaining about its "publication" in TIME, the Dutch not only put every other correspondent in Indonesia on the track of the story-they admitted that somebody was snooping into correspondents' outgoing cablegrams, a violation of confidential communications which many a government practices, but which no polite government likes to admit...