Word: played
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have no sure water supply, but the electricity was still on last week, and they have an ample stock of food and four bathtubs 'filled with water before the regular supply failed (plus the lily pond when these give out). During the long evenings Mr. and Mrs. Hawkings play Russian bank for pennies and halfpennies. "We call ourselves the last outpost of Empire out here," Mrs. Hawkings said. "I don't think we British ought to quit anywhere. It's a matter of prestige...
...hundred or so pass through Madrid. In spite of differences in language, we Argentines feel at home in Paris . . . The man born on the pampas thirsts for wide, liberal and generous horizons, and hates fanaticism as well as mental and spiritual intolerance. Is not France, which has allowed free play for the individual will, more Christian than a country with inquisitorial corsetings and internal slaughterings...
...exercise boys still in the saddles. It is one of Ben's tricks to let his horses settle down and get a bellyful of grass as soon as they come back from a morning's gallop. He feels that it helps horses get the idea that work and play are practically the same thing. Such basic ideas, plus patience and instinctive horse sense, have made him famous wherever horses are raced...
...dogma of the Incarnation may be hailed as revelation or dismissed as rubbish, but, says Dorothy Sayers, it cannot be called dull. "That God should play the tyrant over man is a dismal story of unrelieved oppression; that man should play the tyrant over man is the usual dreary record of human futility; but that man should play the tyrant over God . . . is an astonishing drama indeed. Any journalist, hearing of it for the first time, would recognize it as News...
...Yale match is the marathon of Ivy tennis matches, for instead of the usual six singles and three doubles, the two teams will play ten singles and five doubles. As a result much will depend on the ability of the green lower echelon men to win their matches...