Word: wicket
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...Wodehouse breed-the sort that would take potshots at hares from the drawing-room window. At first young Alec seemed to take after him. Eton contemporaries still remember Alec Home's finest hour, in the big cricket match of 1922, when he scored 66 runs on a sticky wicket against Harrow. In those days, Author and Fellow Etonian Cyril Connolly wrote, Britain's new Prime Minister "was the kind of graceful, tolerant, sleepy boy who is showered with favors and crowned with all the laurels, who is liked by the masters and admired by the boys without...
...prevent integration at the University of Alabama, Governor George Wallace conducted a charade of defiance, then backed away in the face of superior federal power. But last week Wallace was back at the business of defiance, and this time he was confident that he had a much less sticky wicket to stand on - after all, he could now seem to side with God Himself...
...Herr Franz-Josef Strauss, yet it said nothing not common knowledge among fairly sophisticated Bonn reporters. (2) Why was Wolfgang Stammberger, the Justice Minister, not notified of the arrest carried out under his deputy's orders? This question, which the deputy's dismissal scarcely settles, may prove the stickiest wicket of all for the Adenauer regime. As the Economist, one of the mess's more moderate critics, puts it: "If the ministers cannot answer for what their ministries do, then parliament is not in a position to control the executive; and the German Federal Government the facade...
Just a stone's throw from there, Quilt taps at the wicket of Maxie's Club...
...been a proud year for the boys of Lanfranc. a 700-student vocational high school in the sprawling London suburb of Croydon. Led by agile Wicket-keeper Trevor Cowdell, 15, and Captain-elect John Wells, 14. Lanfranc's cricket team was unbeatable, the best in all Surrey. Sixteen-year-old Reggie Chappie won a Surrey schoolboy boxing Championship. Fourteen-year-old Quentin Green made a memorably squeaky-voiced page in Lanfranc's production of Romeo and Juliet. But for 34 Lanfrancians, the best was yet to be: a school-sponsored camping trip in the rugged highlands of Norway...