Word: players
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three minor changes, however, will probably be approved. The first would eliminate the four minute rule which allows players taken out in a half to reenter in the last four minutes of the same half. Instead, a player who starts a quarter would be permitted to leave and reenter once during that period. Players would then be able to get a breather, and specialists, such as conversion kickers, could be used...
...intercontinental missile makes complete and inescapable the analogy of the card players, as far as the card-player scene goes. But card players cannot sit there forever, or alone. They must have friends to bring them food, allies whom they can inspire or intimidate to action outside the deadlock. And the atomic adversaries, unlike the pistol-bound card players, have means other than their main weapons with which they can claw at each other...
...edited by Sir George Grove (1820-1900), London civil engineer, biblical scholar and Zin Arthur music commentator, who was secretary of the Crystal Palace and first director of the Royal College of Music. - And sometimes quaint. Samples: "Charles,? ('Mr. Charles') b. ?, d. ?. Prob. Hungarian 18th-century horn player and clarinettist. He is a shadowy but important figure, since he was the first named performer on the clarinet in the British Isles." "ZUFFOLO. In modern Italian, the name for the tin whistle. [There is] no reason for concluding, as some have done, that [the] zuffolo was a small shawm...
Said Vic: "I felt I had to win. I have never lost nine times in a row to anybody." Next day Seixas and Trabert, who are better as a doubles team than either is as a singles player, won the doubles, 6-2, 4-6, 6-2, 10-8, and clinched the cup. Then, with the remaining two singles matches a mere formality, Seixas and Trabert promptly went to pieces again. They played oafish tennis, and Australia saved face. Rex Hartwig beat Seixas in four sets and Rosewall beat Trabert in three...
...those sports, a player often makes the team and competes against outside opponents, but never qualified for a letter. The Council feels that this is not fair to the individuals...