Word: cricketers
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ICAN'T MAKE 17. NOT FOR THE LIFE OF ME. I'M engaged in a heated game of Cricket with J.P., a version of darts that I've learned about five minutes ago. Some intoxicated tattooed townie in a Red Sox jacket explained the rules. I have to land three darts in certain numbered sectors of the board. I was doing fine until I got to 17. Now, nothing. I've tried 10 times and I can't land a single, freakin' dart...
Nearly 6,000 armed policemen guarded the stadium and the city of Madras against threats of violence, and professional snake catchers patrolled the crowds. This cricket test series between Pakistan and India is the first in 12 years...
...DELHI: India won?t be stopped from confronting Pakistan -- on the cricket field. Hindu nationalist extremists on Thursday dug up the New Delhi pitch (the cricket playing field) hoping to sabotage the first match in 13 years between the rival nuclear powers. But the government is determined to play on. ?This is a nation of cricketers, and they desperately want to see Pakistan come here and play,? says TIME New Delhi bureau chief Tim McGirk. ?And see India trounce them...
OLYMPICS Second Olympics (summer), Paris 22 nations attended 1,319 men, 11 women (first one they came to) France won the most medals, 102 (29 gold) Some events: golf, cricket, croquet...
Counter's scientific research over the years has included mapping the cricket brain, studying acupuncture in the Republic of China and studying why Eskimo men go deaf, which also led to his discovery of the half-Eskimo children of American Arctic explorers Matthew A. Henson and Robert E. Peary in Northwest Greenland...