bearings

Blind cricket relies on a sharp ear, as players must detect a white plastic ball -- the size of a tennis ball -- filled with ball bearings that rattle as it moves.

There are no demarcations along this part of the line yet - a soldier points it out to me, taking bearings from a small patch of sand between the grey crumbs of demolished buildings.

After a debut season spent finding his bearings at USC, the fiery coach made it clear he felt he and his staff didn’t do enough to promote the Trojans basketball program.

Like any number of unsettled heroes from gothic novels, he fears that he is losing his bearings and his sanity.

“Vagrants” is named for a type of bird that loses its bearings and turns up in zones where it’s not supposed to be.