In the shadow of New York skyscrapers a field of dreams emerges, but it is not a baseball diamond. It's for another bat-and-ball sport -- cricket -- that supporters are betting will finally bowl Americans over.
The centuries-old English game has a feverish following throughout much of the world, but the United States, long partial to American football, basketball and national pastime baseball, has been a stubborn holdout.
That may change early next month.
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Judi Dench photographed by Madame Yevonde Middleton in 1961.
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Trump's feral white nationalism.
Nobody knows why this happens, we just know that it sucks.
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"No matter how much rat poison, rat glue or rat cages you put down, it doesn't work," she said. "Look - during the night, all these rats are having a party."
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Pro-Beijing lawmaker Ann Chiang has proposed forming squads of feral cats to catch mice in order to address Hong Kong’s rodent infestation problem.…
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Having staked out their turf in Flushing, the two factions have long waged a bitter ideological battle.
兩派人在法拉盛劃定了各自的地盤,打起了曠日持久、艱苦卓絕的意識形態戰爭。
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Bjarke Ingels’s ‘zootopia’ reverses the role of captor and captive to let animals roam free, while humans are hidden from view. But will it become a feral version of The Hunger Games?
Denmark's cage-free zoo will put humans in captivity
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With doughnuts, headlamps and feral howls, the author joins a sasquatch stakeout.
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Prankster cops Chris and Bill are joined by a Gina from the DA's office to stakeout a lakeside home.squat
Pronunciation: /skwɒt/
Definition of squat
verb (squats, squatting, squatted)adjective (squatter, squattest)
noun
Origin:
Middle English (in the sense 'thrust down with force'): from Old French esquatir 'flatten', based on Latin coactus, past participle of cogere 'compel' (see cogent). The current sense of the adjective dates from the mid 17th century.feral
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Pronunciation: /ˈfɛr(ə)l , ˈfɪə-/
ADJECTIVE
his teeth were bared in a feral snarl
Origin
early 17th century: from Latin fera 'wild animal' (fromferus 'wild') + -al.
feral[fe・ral]
- 発音記号[fíərəl]
[形]
1 ((通例限定))〈動植物が〉自然のままの, 野生の(wild);野生に返った
2 野生味をむき出した, 残忍な.
a feral child
(動物に育てられた)野生児.
(動物に育てられた)野生児.
sasquatch
(săs'kwŏch, -kwăch)
n.
See Bigfoot.
(bĭg'fʊt')
n.
A very large, hairy, humanlike creature purported to inhabit the Pacific Northwest and Canada. Also called Sasquatch.
[From the size of the footprints believed to belong to it.]
[Halkomelem (Salishan language of southwest British Columbia) sε´sq'əč.]
stakeout / stake out
(stāk'out')
n.
Surveillance of an area, building, or person, especially by the police.
[名]((略式))(警察の)張込み(場所).
A stakeout is the coordinated hidden surveillance of a location or person for the purpose of gathering evidence, especially in regard to criminal activity. The term derives from the practice by surveyors of using stakes to measure out an area before the main building project is commenced.
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