Word: wembley
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...finished you may be sure that he is of foreign extraction. The familiar Wellington epigram has egged on thousands of prefects to beat their juniors for not playing in or supporting House cricket and football matches; it has encouraged hundreds of thousands of spectators at Lord's and Wembley to believe that they are in some contributing doubt partly national responsible welfare ; and it is no doubt partly responsible for the enthusiasm with which the weekly football pool is conducted in a million homes...
...years later, in Wembley Stadium, London, O-C gained revenge, as Cambridge Captain H. M. Abrahams gained the distinction of being the only man in the history of the rivalry to win three events. O-C gained a 6 1/2 to 5 1/2 win, when R. J. Dickinson (O) and R. D. Gerould (H) tied for first in the high jump...
...afternoon of wind and rain (the kind of weather. Billy told the crowds, that would have emptied a U.S. stadium), he wound up his three-month campaign with two open-air meetings. At London's White City Stadium 67,000 came to hear him, and at Wembley, a few hours later, about 120,000 turned out - more than had come there to the 1948 Olympic games. When Evangelist Graham called on them to step forward and "receive Christ as your Lord and Master and Saviour," 2,038 surged out of their seats at White City...
...ministers who get about the country already report a heavy increase in church attendance and collections. And the clergy of England, at first skeptical about Evangelist Graham, are now warmly grateful: last week 2,300 of them gathered at Westminster for a farewell lunch to Graham. After the Wembley meeting, the Archbishop of Canterbury himself pronounced the benediction...
...Alibis. Within one minute of the opening whistle, a shocked crowd of 100,000 Britons in Wembley Stadium were reading the handwriting on the wall. A combined move by Member of Parliament Bozsik, his left half and his center forward brought the center 20 yards from the English goal with the ball at his feet. He faked a left-footed kick, then drove the ball home with a hard-rising shot from his right boot. England's Goalie Gil Merrick dived like a swallow to block it, but it shot past him. By half time, Hungary...