Word: wicket
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...occasion for this declaration of policy was the completion of the canalization of the Ohio River from Pittsburgh, Pa., to Cairo, Ill. (967 mi.). Fifty wicket locks now maintain a nine-foot all-year channel down this historic stream, first traversed (1669) by Explorer La Salle, admired by Surveyor George Washington, developed by President James Monroe. Into its brown waters have been poured $150,000,000 to permit stumpy little tugs to haul 50 million tons of coal, iron, gravel and sand on steel barges back and forth each year...
...green grass listening to the clear crack of willow bat on cricket ball, watching their more athletic colleagues play the youngsters of the Royal Naval College. The cadet eleven ginined happily in their spotless white flannels and played close. They had just caught a grizzled Lieutenant-Commander leg-before-wicket, and the present batsmen, for all their massive shin guards and bushy eyebrows, seemed easy. Suddenly at a whispered word from the sidelines the long-white-coated umpire stopped the game and announced...
...will get your two children on May Day!" This threat, whispered by Communists over and over to simple Thomas Testa, Parisian factory worker, so preyed on his mind that last week, mad with fear he rushed into the Metro (subway), dashed through the ticket puncher's wicket, flung himself off the platform before an oncoming train. The cars only took off one of his legs...
Cricket is liked by almost every British citizen, no matter where he lives. It is played with a ball harder than a baseball, with big flat bats, with eleven men on a side, two batters (one at each wicket), a bowler, a wicketkeeper, and an interval of tiffin. The professional members of a team eat in a part of the clubhouse separate from the amateurs' and their names are printed without "Mr." in the lineups...
...purpose of the game, offensively, is to knock down with the ball either or both of two loose-balanced wickets which it is the batsman's business to defend. When one of the batsmen knocks the ball away from his wicket, he may exchange places with the other batsman, thus scoring a run. The procedure of scoring does not greatly differ from that used in two-old-cat; but cricket is unique among all games for profound, untechnical and subtle reasons. Its rhythm, the pace at which its climaxes are reached and at which they disappear, is slower than anything...