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...most valuable supporting role belongs to the hotel itself. Inspired by a Niagara Falls honeymoon hotel, the Hotel de Love features outrageously creative "theme" rooms such as the "Garden of Eden" room, complete with tree, forbidden fruit and serpent, and the "The Grand Finale Passion Suite," modeled after a cricket stadium with astro-turf and recordings of cheering crowds. The rooms nearly steal every scene in which they appear...
With promises of free pizza and movie tickets for two (perhaps the administration is doing its part to encourage a more robust social life on campus) UHS is luring otherwise-motivated students into focus groups to discuss three areas central to advising on campus; as Cricket Sheppard-Sawyer '97, a member of the UHS student advisory committee, explained: "UHS wants to know what people think of the services that are provided, what and how much they know about services that are available, and what barriers are keeping people from using services that already exist...
Another response to the tragedy: the House of Commons voted in October to tighten Britain's already strict gun laws, banning all handguns larger than .22 cal. Prince Philip, who opposes the law, set off a national furor last week when he complained, "If a cricketer, for instance, suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, which he could do very easily, I mean are you going to ban cricket bats?" The Prince has since apologized...
Okay, okay, that was also another rather immature comment, but one can argue that the entire Harvard-Yale rivalry is one of immaturity. I mean, who should care if so-and-so's cricket team can whoop so-and-so's butt...
Volleyball nets are set up by displaced Californians, little kids from the elementary school play soccer with Brad; and occasionally even a croquet course or an inning or two of cricket takes root. Adam walks by in his Wachusett T-shirt and yells up to my window to ask if I want to play tennis at three...