If you were playing tennis or baseball, you swung a racket or a bat.
She wants out of the game, but this is a racket that people tend not to walk away from.
Middle-class kids are far more likely to play a pickup game of basketball or baseball than pick up a racket.
War may be a racket, as Marine Major General Smedley Butler said, but in Virginia, it is also big business.
Then suddenly at sunrise, hundreds came ashore all at once, squawking and making a racket with the thrumming of their wings.
"In the past, the towels had a novelty look, like a stylized image of a racket or a net, " Ms. Ackroyd said.
Recently, a member of Parliament from Quebec, Yvan Loubier, was given 24-hour police protection after he had exposed a racket in his constituency.
How durable will the technology be, and will it withstand all the times a racket accidentally scrapes the court in a typical match?
The fight was not to do with Jerusalem or the refugees' right of return but born of a vendetta over a racket in stolen cars.
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His roommate's four youngsters would visit for hours, creating a racket, while up to 20 hospital staff a day would come in the room to examine him, bring food or change a lightbulb.
In a racket that has seen its share of miracle cures come and go and come again, NutriSystem has finally evolved into a stripped-down, predictable business of selling small, safe and idiot-proof portions of food.
There is a line in the film where Richard Griffiths' on-screen "daughter" is practicsng the piano in another room and making a racket where he says, "Not now, Veronica" and that line has become a family line for us.
The requirement that banks must hold up to about a quarter of their deposits in government bonds was no longer denounced as a racket to help fund the budget deficit but instead hailed as an enlightened form of liquidity management.
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The simple mini-game replicates an actual tennis match as well as any I've ever seen: Since you're actually swinging the remote like you would a racket, you can hit with varying force or apply spin to the ball, depending on how you move your body.
"I still feel it a little bit, " said the girl who stumbled across the sport at the age of seven when her mother Alla, who worked at a tennis center in their hometown of Minsk in Belarus, gave her a racket to keep her entertained.
There was a contingent of about a dozen students who drove from Texas to root on Mary-Hardin Baylor, and they made quite a racket a couple hours before tip as they marched toward the arena dressed in everything from a garish golden toga to a snazzy purple bodysuit.
But you could just as easily be swinging a tennis racket or a baseball bat.
The collector basically looks like a tennis racket filled with ice cubes, so this is kind of like a big ice-cube tray, and each ice cube is not made out of ice, but it's made out of this aerogel.
The 'Crackit' is a hybrid of a cricket bat and a tennis racket and allows children of all ages to play cricket without the use of a heavy wooden bat.
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It's completely different from Rachel Antonoff's garden party-themed presentation Sunday, in which Vujevic's prop was a badminton racket, or the Christine Alcalay presentation earlier that day, which was staged in a 1, 000-square-foot studio in an office building.
What is character if it flees like a startled doe from a mild racket?
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Others say that the movement is a financial racket, swindlers taking advantage of fools.
"Consumers are demanding high technology in everything they own, whether it be a computer or a tennis racket, " Blair says.
The handle was wood, and the grip was uncomfortably thick, like that of a tennis racket borrowed from an older player.
No great tonnage of steel here: Its curving roof is a tensioned cable-net that resembles the strings of a tennis racket.
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This is the best sort of scanner, but it makes a terrible racket and so is not conducive to dreamy slumber.
And the thing caught in a tennis racket sort of made out of aerogel, this really wispy, smoky sort of solid, right?
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