Word: crunches
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Given their long history of choking in the crunch, it's fitting that the most elegant euphemism for sporting failure was invented by the English. You used to hear it all the time on BBC radio, when an England side was beaten, at Wembley or Twickenham or Lord's; at the final whistle, or wicket, a commentator would put the defeat down to "the glorious uncertainty of the game...
...Everywhere you step you’d crunch sprinkles,” said Geoff A. Preidis ’03, who saw the dining hall that Monday night and again the following morning...
...December, Harvard announced a highly-controversial purchase of a housing development off Memorial Drive on land formerly owned the Polaroid Company, which local activists had hoped could be used to alleviate Cambridge’s housing crunch...
Both in his statements and in his actions this year, Summers went beyond past assurances and planned to seek a solution to the University-wide space crunch and make room for science’s enormous long-term needs...
...special opportunity.” This change, along with several others designed to slash the bureaucracy preventing study abroad, will greatly benefit undergraduate education. Students should be encouraged to spend time in other countries—for personal enrichment as well as to ease Harvard’s housing crunch. The progress made in this area—slashing institutional bureaucracy and increasing student flexibility—should serve as a model for the other improvements which Harvard must urgently make to the rest of undergraduate education...