Word: crickets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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London thought the Dutch were, not "playing cricket." The U.S. State Department was "irritated" and U.S. economic aid to The Netherlands East Indies was cut off. The U.N. Security Council adopted a U.S.-sponsored cease-fire order intended to dislodge the Dutch. Not even the Dutch themselves celebrated their victory. Queen Juliana deplored the violence. Said she: "It is a tragedy of human society that makes force the necessary reaction to force . . . We are all in God's hands...
Denis Compton is a British cricketer and a friend of Freddie's. But in the atlas of British sports-South African edition, at least-cricket and pugilism are as far removed as Capetown and Lord's, home pitch of London's swank Marylebone Cricket Club. Last week, as Freddie fought his fight in Johannesburg, Denis-in Capetown to play with the M.C.C. team against South Africa's Western Province Cricket Club-invited him to drop in at Newland's Cricket Pavilion...
...Department's unsuccessful attempt the year before to have its cake and eat it. At that time there was a "course" giving credit to students writing a thesis, but including no tutorial at all, which was a combination that the Faculty's Committee on Educational Policy did not consider cricket, since the requirement for honors is 16 courses plus a thesis. When the Economics Department found this out, it decided to leave the honors candidates holding the bag--which contained 16 courses and a thesis--and went about spending its money on better things, than tutorial...
When the Australian cricket team visited Balmoral Castle and asked if they could take some snapshots of their royal hosts, King George VI said sure, "but you'll have to take some of your own medicine. I am a photographer, too." After a merry clicking of shutters from all sides, all the camera fans sat down...
...Just before the finals of the National Doubles, at Longwood Cricket Club in Massachusetts, Billy Talbert admitted: "Gardnar Mulloy and I want that Davis Cup doubles job the worst way." Talbert and Mulloy decided that the best way to get it was to beat their Davis Cup teammates, Frank Parker and Ted Schroeder, in the Longwood finals. Talbert fortified himself for the match with cold towels (against the 97° heat) and sugar (he has diabetes). Then he and Mulloy ganged up effectively on the erratic Schroeder with sharply angled placements, won their fourth National Doubles title...