In the sport of cricket, making the ball move in the air with the older ball is called reverse swing. It is also referred to as Irish swing.
Read more about Reverse Swing: Conventional Swing, The Ball, Reverse Swing, Origin, How Does It Work?, When The Ball Reverses
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“They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.”
—Bible: Hebrew Isaiah, 2:4.
The words reappear in Micah 4:3, and the reverse injunction is made in Joel 3:10 (”Beat your plowshares into swords ...”)
“And then came the most devastating thought of all: I was one of them. I who used to swing upside down on a living horse, who always danced when mere walking would have done, so glad was I of life, so full of health. It was the most gruesome thought I had ever had in my life.”
—Josephine Demott Robinson (1865–1948)