Word: markers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ukrainian report charged that on June 14 a Greek civilian and six soldiers had sneaked across the Albanian border to whitewash the pyramidal frontier marker No. 23. Said the report: "Our patrol of Trustoniku ordered him not to whitewash it, but as the civilian did not obey, our soldiers fired at him. After an exchange of shots lasting for 30 minutes, the Greek soldiers withdrew to their post of Llapanica, wherefrom they started machine-gunning our soldiers. Our patrol did the same. There were no casualties...
...Royal & Ancient clubhouse as haughty and pigeon-toed as ever, in a chauffeured Rolls-Royce, dressed in a salmon-pink sweater and blowsy grey trousers. As usual, he did not smile, ignored his opponents, spoke only to his plump, wealthy Argentine wife who followed him around as his official marker. He commanded the largest gallery, and treated the crowd to a three-under-par 70. Then he was whisked back to swank Rosack's Marine Hotel for a massage...
...Harvard nine dropped its second straight game of the season to Connecticut, Saturday, by a score of 8 to 7 in 10 innings. It was an uphill battle all the way for the losers, who managed to tie the game in the seventh inning only to see the winning marker cross the plate on an error in overtime...
That was as far as the West Pointers were destined to get, however, for the Crimson then took the center of the stage. Bob Feloney scored at 1:00 and Bill Ayres followed him up with another at 4:15 to cut the Army lead to one scant marker. But here the rally ended, as the two teams remained deadlocked for the rest of the contest...
...only eleven racquets courts exist. Game requirements: a four-walled cement court about twice the length of a squash court; a hard ball (the size of a ping-pong ball, but the consistency of a baseball, it shoots and caroms from wall to wall so rapidly that a marker is needed to call "play" after each fair shot); a supply of racquets, since an average player breaks a racquet a game; players with stamina, timing, fast footwork and a lightning...