Word: cricketeers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cricket. The ordinary Indian soldier was called a sepoy, and there were 257,000 of them to 34,000 British troops in all India. Unhappily for the British, the Crimean War and a brace of local disasters had shown that the sahibs were not invincible. Also the Feringis (Europeans) were bigoted enough to abolish suttee. The rumor spread among Moslems and Hindus that the British were trying to make Christians of them. The greased cartridges hit a bull's-eye of hate, and at Meerut 85 sepoys refused duty. After a suitable court-martial, the older mutineers were shackled...
...Pretty soon Geoffrey's older brother, Boscoe, began to bang at the keyboard in the evenings, and Geoffrey copied him. When Boscoe developed a taste for painting and then for dancing, Geoffrey copied him again. Endowed with natural rhythm and a body as hard and flat as a cricket bat, Geoffrey left school in his early teens to join a native Trinidad dance group that brother Boscoe had put together. By the time Boscoe departed for a dancing career in London, 19-year-old Geoffrey had picked up enough choreography and designing to take over the company...
...which civilization gets to the Slavs." He despised the Tyrol ("detestable"), the Kremlin ("quite insignificant"). Angry, this mind spewed along. Max Beerbohm said, "like a Roman river full of baskets and dead cats"; fixed, it set in hard grooves. "I suppose," said Beerbohm, on hearing that Belloc had witnessed cricket, "he would have said that the only good wicket-keeper in the history of the game was a Frenchman and a Roman Catholic...
...inept Brown cricket squad managed to score only 19 runs in its inning Saturday, so the Crimson cricket club was able to register an easy victory in its first match of the season...
...cricket team will open its season on the house football field against Brown at 1 p.m. On the starting lineup are Barry Eastment, Mansoor Wharton-Ali, John Biggs, David Robinson, Greg Davis, Don Shojai, Neville Markham, Charles Brower, Alan Gould, Sam Bailey, and Roger Wykes...