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Howe launched Thatcher's downfall. He attacked the Prime Minister's public undermining of her ministers' policies, comparing it to sending out batsmen in a cricket game with their bats broken by the captain. He said Thatcher saw a continent "positively teeming with ill-intentioned people scheming, in her words, 'to extinguish democracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Thatcher's Time to Go | 12/3/1990 | See Source »

...Princeton beats the batsmen, 5-1, to win the EIBL title...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Year in Review | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

...batsmen clinch the EIBL title with a 10-1 win over Navy. The are later eliminated in the NCAA Northeast regional...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Year in Review | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

Check out any sports page of The Crimson, circa 1989. Notice the sports language. Instead of "stickmen" (lacrosse, 1959), we have "laxmen." Instead of "the varsity nine" (baseball, 1959), we have "batsmen." Is sports language in 1989 better than it was in 1959? Not really. Only different...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Raising Rhubarb in the Year 1959 | 4/15/1989 | See Source »

Hershiser had five strikeouts, two walks and two hit batsmen in pitching the third shutout in a series-deciding game in playoff history...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dodgers Take Pennant Over Mets, 6-0 | 10/13/1988 | See Source »

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