Word: cricketeers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...World-Class cricket team representing Pakistan will meet a combined universities team in the first and only cricket match of the season today at 11 a.m. at Soldiers Field...
...rousing Seventy Six Trombones. Later in a gay, public-library ballet, Preston soft-shoes a hard sell of love-making to the librarian. Number after number-street gossipers, the arrival of cornets by Wells Fargo, a Shipoopi in a gym-has its own blared or strutted, puppet-jiggled or cricket-chirped animation. In the title role, a Preston who had never danced or sung during 20 years of show business becomes, at a bound, a brilliant song-and-dance man. His triumph, to be sure, stems from something less than singing, and seldom exactly dancing; it grows from...
...discovery of nothin' is a world-shaking event." In dealing with modern computers, Baird must include a quick explanation of the binary system.* He works his way into algebra with the equation T =C/4 + 37-the outside Fahrenheit temperature equals the number of times a cricket chirps in a quarter of a minute plus 37. After algebra come geometry, trigonometry, and the theory of probability that was discovered when Gambler Chevalier de Meré asked Pascal to figure out his chances of winning a dice game when interrupted at any particular moment. The high point of the series...
...will quit as NATO's Deputy Supreme Allied Commander. "I am pulling out because I am satisfied that the danger of direct attack on NATO countries is now very remote. What might be called the European test match can be postponed indefinitely [although] there may be village cricket elsewhere in the world," Monty explained. "The 1949 conception of NATO is now too narrow. Its members have got to look outwards at the world and not just inwards at their own parish pumps...
...Team morale is shot," said Iowa Coach Forest Evashevski after TIME and others had the temerity to suggest that settling for a 21-21 tie with Michigan might have been cricket but wasn't football. "I don't know whether we can get the kids up off the floor." But this time Evy refused to quit. He posted the offending articles on the locker-room bulletin board. His kids got the message and scored the most points Iowa had ever made against Minnesota. They beat the Gophers...