Word: cricketed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...night long the scattered paratroopers worked to re-establish contact, snapping cricket noisemakers to locate each other. (Most of their radios had been lost, along with 60% of their other supplies.) Sometimes the cricket sound drew German gunfire, but more often it brought lonely stragglers together into makeshift units (others remained lost for days). "When I began to use my cricket," General Taylor recalled, "the first man I met in the darkness I thought was a German until he cricketed. He was the most beautiful soldier I'd ever seen, before or since. We threw our arms around each other...
Another, larger defacement occurred after Harvard won a cricket match against Yale and claimed the Mott Haven cup. Red paint, in what' was termed "deplorable vandalism," was daubed all over monuments in the Yard...
Rees' Henry was an audacious interpretation: the artist as manic-depressive child. Henry is, after all, a little boy in love with the sound of his own mind. He has every right to be infatuated: his pinwheel brain turns ideas into seductive images. He can pick up a cricket bat and find in its sprung wood a metaphor for the well-made play: "What we're trying to do is to write cricket bats, so that when we throw up an idea and give it a little knock, it might... travel. "Still, there is something adolescent about...
...best cricket bat anyone has written in years. - By Richard Corliss...
...landscape; a mangrove glows like a Christmas tree as thousands of fireflies illuminate its heavy branches. The text, by Naturalists Lorus and Margery Milne, is full of felicities: "It is often the inconspicuous [insects] that have the greatest impact on civilization . . . The world feels right when we hear a cricket chirping." But it is the glowing pictures (by some 40 photographers) that provide the enchantment of this year's wildest bestiary...