Word: wicket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Then ye contented your souls With the flanneled fools at the wicket or the muddied oafs at the goals...
...statisticians tell us, often plays a long innings. But time's a cheat . . . The brevity in Woolley's batting is a thing of pulse and spirit, not to be checked by clocks, but only to be apprehended by imagination. He is always about to lose his wicket; his runs are thin-spun ... An innings by him is almost too unsubstantial for this world...
...this week. Herriot's callers were escorted to the door by five ushers in evening dress. As the delegates got into their cars, Paul Reynaud told a British journalist that on this issue Britain appeared en mauvaise posture. "Yes," the Briton translated freely, "we are on a bad wicket...
Students found time to start a literary society, publish a magazine, and indulge in diversions that met with faculty approval: boating, fishing, wicket and quoits. It was considered "morally wrong" for students to spend much time over a chessboard, and some young wastrels had been known to patronize saloons, gaming houses and even the theater...
There were also a few dissenters, who feared that St. Louis might come to be known as "the Wicket City...