Word: lens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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However, it was not considered cricket for a professional to become the team captain. The first man for whom that unwritten rule was broken is Yorkshireman Len Hutton, one of Britain's alltime cricket greats...
...Last year, under his leadership, England won again. Hutton became a national hero. But at 39, he was past his prime; a wartime accident had left one arm shorter than the other, and he had trouble holding his own against speedball bowlers. Last week, on his doctors' advice, Len Hutton retired-and all England mourned. There is no one in sight to take his place, among either gentlemen or players. "His defense was an iron curtain," wrote the Times; "his cover drive was the game's most classic stroke; the way he touched the peak...
...travel insurance policies on her life -one for Jack, one for his half-sister in Alaska, and one for his mother's sister in Missouri. When Flight 629 arrived from Chicago ten minutes later, Mrs. King said goodbye to the Grahams and their 22-month-old son Al len, kissed them affectionately and boarded the plane. The take-off was delayed another 12 minutes while the plane waited for a late passenger...
...Len Hall's theme was "prosperity with peace." He cried: "Nowhere in the world tonight, as I stand here with my friend Paul Butler, is there anywhere a soldier shooting a gun at an American...
...first time in all its 47 years, the management announced, that the hotel had suffered the indignity of a robbery. Such a moment could not go unrecorded. The Vancouver Sun, which occasionally yields to the temptation to tweak Victoria's stiff upper lip, assigned star Cartoonist Len Norris to the historical task...