Seconds after it consumes a spill, the powder balls up and floats away for easy recovery.
It's a special moment when you walk back as defending champion on that court, throw those balls up for the first point.
Long balls up to an isolated Anelka brought no joy, and Ballack looked short of fitness in a midfield that was misfiring.
With the same gusto with which he puts poorly-briefed Ministers to the sword, he described it as a "balls-up".
"You just can't write us off, " said Clarke after Hussey's unbeaten 60 off 24 balls set up a final against Ashes rivals England in Barbados on Sunday.
Her instinct tells her to prepare, her hand making renewed, abrupt contact with the knife, even though two of the youths appear indifferent to her and are religiously chewing qaat and arguing, bansheelike, about yesterday's match between Arsenal and Manchester United, and agreeing that the referee made a balls-up of the game by unfairly red-carding the Gunners' captain.
In any event, the vast majority of Velocity balls will end up in a lake.
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It's a bit like golf, really: even well-hit balls can end up in the rough.
Scotland batted first and, with captain Ryan Watson scoring 91 off just 113 balls, knocked up a score of 253-7.
Stirling was out in the next over two balls after bringing up his hundred, giving the Netherlands a glimmer of hope.
Which makes no sense at all as a monkey is, in archaic naval parlance, a brass triangle which iron cannon balls are piled up inside of.
Gordon Brown's New Deal, his Working Families Tax Credit and perhaps even his decision to give the Bank of England independent control of monetary policy owe a good deal to ideas the chancellor and his economic adviser, Ed Balls, picked up and kicked about in Washington and Harvard.
They soon slumped to 88-8, but wicketkeeper Mushfiqur Rahim (48) and Shahadat Hossain (23) put up a brief ninth-wicket of stand of 60 off 64 balls before Jacques Kallis wrapped up the innings.
England reached their first 50 from 47 balls and by ball 86 were up to 100, in contrast Ireland took 54 balls to reach 50 and a further 62 to reach 100.
Sachin Tendulkar waited 17 deliveries before he picked up his first boundary, a pull off Anderson in the 10th over, but two balls later he was snapped up by Collingwood at backward point.
Balls of tar washing up on the beach would make any real estate deal tougher.
George Osborne and Ed Balls had to cosy up on the sofa on the Andrew Marr programme this weekend.
The first 50 runs used up 123 balls, but the ensuing two fifties came off just 58 and 52 deliveries respectively.
The so-called team building session saw players, among other things, forced naked into a freezing lake to pump up rugby balls under water.
The captain reached his seventh one-day century two balls before Raina brought up his own half-ton, off what was the final ball of the innings.
There are all these inaugural balls, everybody dresses up and dances.
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Weapons including home made knives, pool cues and balls were used when up to 50 detainees fought at Morton Hall in Lincolnshire, according to staff.
In his speech to Labour's annual conference, Mr Balls signed the party up to tough spending rules and vowed that any windfall from the sale of bank shares would be spent on paying off the national debt.
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Livingston midfielder Guillermo Amor, making his first start for the West Lothian side, was having a quiet time and the former Barcelona star was mostly involved in mopping up loose balls at the edge of the home side's box.
The teacher took us to the practice range, put the balls on the tees, and gave 6 or 7 iron clubs, saying that anyone who can hit over the net, I think it was about 70 yards away, did not have to pick up the balls that day.
As demonstrated in the video, at one point we resorted to a mere one dimensional "waggle, " which resulted in wild skips and jumps of our Nadal avatar, who managed to pick up tennis balls on either side of him, jumping as far as six feet or so away from just a tiny flick of ours.
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Mr. Louis occasionally picks up errant cricket balls that land amid his battered sedans and tosses them back.
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But the century stand came up from 185 balls before Brown reached his half-century by punching Willoughby to the ropes.
Cook profited to bring his fifty up off 93 balls while, after a quiet start, Pietersen launched a flurry of attacking shots before lunch.
Clawing for every rebound, diving on the floor for loose balls and cranking the intensity up even higher on their ferocious defense, the Cardinals were not going to lose.
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