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The game is played most notably during the final scene of the series finale " All Good Things ", when Captain Jean-Luc Picard for the first time joins the others as the dealer and, after revealing that he was quite the card player in his youth and being told he had been always welcome, gives the final words of that episode and of the series overall: " Five-card stud, nothing wild ... and the sky's the Limit " as the camera pans overhead the table.
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The game is not worth the ammunition it would cost.
He kept his attacks on Republicanism for partisan campaigns, but that is part of the game he was born to play.
After all, when one has asked whatever became of old Joe and Charlie when one has inquired who it was Sue Brown married and where it is they now live when questions are asked and answered about families and children, and old professors when the game and its probable outcome has been exhausted that does it.
Politics is an accelerating game.
The long-range objective of habitat management is to make it fully productive so as to support fish and game populations to contribute to the need for public use and enjoyment.
And due to modern resource-use and game management practices, there is still game to shoot, even with the ever-expanding encroachment on land and water.
Nor is it an accident that baseball, growing into the national game in the last 75 years, has become a microcosm of American life, that learned societies such as the American Folklore Society and the American Historical Association were founded in the 1880s, or that courses in American literature, American civilization, American anything have swept our school and college curricula.
There is much to be said for a college that, while happily attuned to the sophisticated Ivies, still gives its students a chance to get up early in the morning and drive along back roads where a glimpse of small game, deer, or even bear is not uncommon.
But there is one small episode that a few New York fans who happened to sit in the cheap seats for one World's Series game in 1926 like best to recall.
`` Kelsey is very doubtful for the Rice game '', Meek said.
-- Held out of Texas Tech's sweat-suits drill Monday at Lubbock was tackle Richard Stafford, who is undergoing treatment for a leg injury suffered in the Raiders' 38-7 loss to Texas A & M Because of its important game with Arkansas coming up Saturday, Baylor worked out in the rain Monday -- mud or no mud.
it must play a game in which there never is a winner.
It is almost axiomatic that golfers who dominate the game of golf for any period of time attack their shots with a vehemence bordering on violence.
The effective tit for tat strategy is one game theoretic example.
This song is also used in Ellen Raskin's The westing game.
The game Orphan Feast on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim website is loosely based on A Modest Proposal.
Asteroids is a video arcade game released in November 1979 by Atari Inc.
The object of the game is to shoot and destroy asteroids and saucers while not colliding with either, or being hit by the saucers ' counter-fire.
Asteroids is also the first game to use Atari's " QuadraScan " vector-refresh system ; a full-color version known as " Color-QuadraScan " was later developed for games such as Space Duel and Tempest.
The game is over when the player has lost all of his / her lives.
The maximum possible score in this game is 99, 990 points, after which it " rolls over " back to zero.
The Asteroids arcade machine is a vector game.
** Every infinite game in which is a Borel subset of Baire space is determined.
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One evening, while a volley-ball game was being played in the yard among the prisoners remaining there, a simulated melee was staged -- just as the gates were opened to admit other prisoners returning from work.
In all the bitter in-fighting, the squabbles over election procedures, the complicated numbers game that East and West played on the assistant secretaries' theme, the gentleman from Burma showed himself both as a man of principle and a skilled diplomat.
Even a city of thirty thousand might have six baseball teams, sponsored by grocers and hardware merchants or department stores, that played two or three times a week throughout the summer, usually in the cool of the evening, before an earnest and partisan audience who did not begrudge a quarter each, or even more, to be dropped into a hat when the game was half over.
Back East the more affluent juvenile delinquents, who could afford hyped-up autos instead of switch blades as lethal weapons, played this same game and called it `` Chicken ''.
Usually she marked the few who did thank you, you didn't get that kind much in a place like this: and she played a little game with herself, seeing how downright rude she could act to the others, before they'd take offense, threaten to call the manager.
`` Our interior line and out linebackers played exceptionally well '', said Stram Monday after he and his staff reviewed movies of the game.
Alumni played its last game in 1911 and was definitely dissolved on April 24, 1913.
A fourth match was played, against a " United Australian XI ", which was arguably stronger than the Australian sides that had competed in the previous three matches ; this game, however, is not generally considered part of the 1882 – 83 series.
Cricket Australia proposed that the 2010 – 11 series consist of six Tests, with the additional game to be played at Bellerive Oval in Hobart.
It hosted the annual Hall of Fame Game, an exhibition game between two major league teams that was played from 1940 until 2008.
* 1876 – The first ever National League baseball game is played in Philadelphia.
First indoor baseball game is played.
Playing across the western U. S., the tour made stops in Hawaii ( although no game was played ), New Zealand, Australia, Ceylon, Egypt, Italy, France, and England.
Their second title, and the first to be received through a championship game, came in, two decades before the first Super Bowl game was played.
The Diamondbacks ' first major league game was played against the Colorado Rockies on March 31, 1998, at Bank One Ballpark before a standing-room only crowd of 50, 179.
While scratch matches were played by Australian " diggers " in remote locations around the world, the game lost many of its great players to wartime service.
By 1980, the way the game was played had changed dramatically due to innovative coaching tactics, with the phasing out of many of the game's kicking styles and the increasing use of handball ; whilst presentation was influenced by television.
This consisted of a mock game against the fictional player " Systemsson ", supposedly played and annotated by Nimzowitsch himself.
Last Bronx, a 1996 Sega game played on the bad reputation of the Bronx to lend its name to an alternate version of post-Japanese bubble Tokyo, where crime and gang warfare is rampant.
* Patolli, a board game originating in Mesoamerica played by the ancient Aztec
* c. 3000 BC: The Mehen board game from Predynastic Egypt, was played with lion-shaped game pieces and marbles.
Most games use a standardized and unchanging board ( chess, Go, and backgammon each have such a board ), but many games use a modular board whose component tiles or cards can assume varying layouts from one session to another, or even while the game is played.
Games played ( most often abbreviated as G or GP ) is a statistic used in team sports to indicate the total number of games in which a player has participated ( in any capacity ); the statistic is generally applied irrespective of whatever portion of the game is contested.
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