Word: swatting
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...bowler gets up speed with a run of from, 10 to 50 feet, must not bend his elbow when delivering the ball. His chief aim is to knock down the batsman's wicket (see chart) for an out. The batsman, who defends the wicket, seldom tries to swat the ball out of the park (though over the fence, "a boundary," is an automatic six runs). He hopes to whack out a low grasscutter, since a ball caught on the fly is out. If he thinks he can make it, he runs for the other wicket (66 feet away...
...sizzling rare cuts" so amply provided at this hour of the rationing program? Perhaps the most beneficial expense of this ridiculous show was the test of DDT, which suggests to the rest of us bourgeoisie that if we keep plugging, at least we won't have to swat flys any more...
Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb, bringing back memories of baseball's better days, battled it out at Manhattan's Polo Grounds. The plump Sultan of Swat masterminded his Eastern team to victory over the plump Nonpareil's Westerners in Esquire's annual Ail-American Boys' Game...
George Herman ("Babe") Ruth, who has mostly watched baseball from the grandstand since his days as the "King of Swat," planned to launch a fresh career as a wrestling referee with an April 4 match in Boston, said he would go on a crosscountry tour if the new job pans...
...libs was a roundhouse swing at the "prima donnas" in the world -"there are a great number of prima donnas in the world"-which many interpreted as a swat at Charles de Gaulle, who had refused to meet him at Algiers (TIME, Feb. 26). And in describing his post-Yalta travels he said: "Of the problems of Arabia, I learned more about that whole problem, the Moslem problem, the Jewish problem, by talking with Ibn Saud for five minutes, than I could have learned in exchange of two or three dozen letters...