Word: wicket
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...basic idea of the game is for the batsmen to defend their wickets. They use special bats with a long, flat, four-inch wide blade. The wicket, a device peculiar to cricket, is a lineal descendant of the ancient cottage wicket gate. In present form it consists of three thin poles or "stumps" spaced exactly three inches apart, with two little wood cylinders, or "bails" mounted...
...Friday, the deadline date, Postmaster B. T. Brinkley and his two daughters spent the day stamping 4,000 letters from stamp collectors with a special cachet. At 5 p.m., just as he had for years, Brinkley pulled down the sliding door of the stamp wicket, locked the windows and latched the door for the last time. Ellenton was given up to the bulldozers and to progress...
...follow through on a very sticky wicket, here is an extension of the delicate differences between the two Ancient & Honourable Universities as observed by an American [and Cantabrigian]. Oxford: Scotch whisky, Parliament, Press & Pulpit, Beautiful men, Boyish women, Refined brilliance, Marry good country girls or Americans. Cambridge: Audit ale, Poetry, Pubs & Privacy, Handsome men, Manly women, Rough genius, Marry lusty city girls or Continentals...
...Socialists had two lines to peddle: apology for troubles at home (Attlee: "We've had to bat on a very sticky wicket"), and insistence that Churchill would be too militant (Herbert Morrison: "I tremble for the cause of peace if the Conservative temperament and warlike excitability were predominant in Parliament"). Actually, this suspicion of Churchill plays on his bulldog reputation and not on his recent utterances, for Churchill is acutely aware of the danger of sounding warlike in war-weary Britain. On these unspecific lines, the battle between Attlee's Socialists and Churchill's Tories began...
From the human interest point of view the American public will be interested to hear that, although a cricket ball is just as hard as a baseball, cricket players field barehanded. Only the wicket-keeper (catcher) has a pair of gloves. Those who think that bowling cannot be very fast because it bounces off the ground should note that the batsmen wear pads on their legs and have special half-gloves for their hands. Bowlers can generate terrific speeds with their curious stiff armed bowling (they are not allowed to throw). A fast bowler takes...