Word: cricketers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...able to tell my daughters that I have seen you and talked to you today, and they will be very thrilled. They are always asking me questions about how you are getting on." The British began to follow air-raid box scores as they used to follow soccer and cricket news. They considered the return of the German Air Force to the west as a triumph for the R.A.F., though it meant trouble. They stopped worrying about being invaded, resting on the hope that after the Russian battle Adolf Hitler could not give his troops rest, move them, regroup them...
Thirty-nine neutral Y secretaries are visiting prison camps in ten countries, find the churches in all of them more cooperative than last time. Most highly organized are the French and British officers' camps in Nazi Germany, with facilities for cricket and football, theatricals, and educational courses as varied as the curriculum of "any small college...
...Scampering Sarah Palfrey Fabyan Cooke, 28, fifth ranking woman tennist in the U.S.: the Middle States tennis championship; trouncing top-ranking Helen Jacobs in the final, 6-3, 6-2; at the Philadelphia Cricket Club, Philadelphia...
Compared to the razzle-dazzle, full-blast Russo-German world series. General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson's Syrian campaign last week seemed like a bland rural cricket match with luncheon intervals and time out for tea. But with Damascus fallen, Beirut tottering, Palmyra (Tadmor) encircled and a drive on for the important road junctions and airport at Horns, it looked as though the match would soon be won by Sir Henry's British-Free French team...
Last week, cricket matches were going full blast on the hallowed grounds at Lord's-the Marylebone Club playing teams from the Army, R.A.F., the Fire Brigade, etc. And at Newmarket, 70 miles from London, 50,000 Britons, disregarding the Government's "stay put" order, swarmed together for the second wartime running of the classic Derby-normally held at Epsom Downs, nearer London...