Word: wicket
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last Saturday on Soldiers Field, the Crimson again was at bat for about an hour. But that's all the time it needed to overtake MIT's score of 59 runs for 10 wickets taken. In fact, Harvard scored its 60 runs without loss of a wicket...
American rules, Ms. Kayden explained, are akin to the rules of backyard croquet. When one ball is hit by another, it is "dead" and can't be hit again until the attacker goes through a wicket. Under international rules, balls are always open to attack...
...between loyalty to his former masters and his moral duty to turn them in. To complicate matters, he has fallen in love with the daughter (Lisa Zeidenberg) of the local Major General (Andrew Gardner) who is bent on the pirates' destruction. How does Frederick escape from this frightfully sticky wicket? Suffice to say that the resolution is as silly as it is stirring...
...collegiate croquet, the players try to complete two rotations of the six-wicket, 84- by 105-ft. course within a specified time limit. Players compete alone or in two-person teams...
Marlyn M. Lewis, assistant dean of the College and the GSA's administration liaison, said last night that although Pattullo was probably expressing a personal opinion, his use of his title created a "sticky wicket...