Word: crypticism
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...story, I tried to illustrate the utter badness of the day for Harvard. I mentioned the gridders' anemic offensive performance and its lame defensive effort. I then tried to square off the paragraph with this wisecrack: "Even the band's performance was more cryptic than usual...
First, my comment had nothing to do with my own perceptions. The window in the pressbox on that fated afternoon was closed. I couldn't hear a damn thing--neither the band nor its loudspeaker, nothing. So no matter how cryptic the band's performance might have been, I wouldn't have known...
Murphy's gridders were destoyed by Bucknell Saturday, 42-23. The Crimson offense was off, committing four turnovers. Its defense was worse, allowing 504 yards total offense. And just about everyone else on the Harvard side had a bad day, too: even the band's halftime show was show cryptic than usual...
Conditioning sprints are punctuated by such cryptic chants as: "The darkhorse rides at midnight!" The term "darkhorse" comes up repeatedly in interviews with the players. Heck, even the practice-punctuating one word huddle chant has become "darkhorse," rather than the more conventional "defense" or "team...
...without ever making a public act of contrition was one more reason that Louisiana was stunned last week when, midway through his present term, he made a tearful announcement before the state legislature that he would not seek re-election. For once, the Governor had just a few cryptic words of explanation: "I feel it's time to move on to something else. When you learn -- and you will -- what I have in mind, you'll understand...