Word: pail
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...have to bring a lunch-pail mentality to the rink,” Mazzoleni said. “And if we don’t play that, we’re very beatable. We are. And it showed against Brown and against Princeton—we got outcompeted by both teams. When we bring a lunch-pail mentality will be able to play with anyone, I don’t have any question about that. But if we don’t, we’re very beatable...
Mazzoleni believes that players like Fried, Du and Flynn give him that lunch-pail mentality and that while they may not score too many goals, they will skate hard, fast and physical. But compared with last year, when Harvard skated three offensively-skilled lines, this year’s Crimson model is coming up a bit short...
...comes the hard part: The Year After. Without the likes of Doug Murray, Stephen Baby, good-guy Crimson-killer Sam Paolini and Dryden Deux (David LeNeveu), the Big Red will set to work with senior captain Ryan Vesce and a solid group of young forwards that includes two lunch-pail-and-hard-hat guys with talent—Mike Knoepfli and Shane Hynes—who any coach would take on their team. Those expecting a precipitous drop will be disappointed, especially given that Cornell has one of the best bench coaches in college hockey, Mike Schafer. Mark it down...
...when disgruntled French farmers wanted to lash out at the forces of globalization, it was a McDonald’s that they chose to dismantle. Much more recently, a Saudi man entered a Riyadh McDonald’s and set fire to it, igniting it with a pail of petroleum. The alleged motive was to punish the restaurant for serving food during Ramadan. But it’s not hard to see the symbolic meaning in this act of terrorism, as Saudi oil mixed with American grease to burn down the temple to the patron saint of decadence...
...purchasing these “nicer not necessary” pillows until the cashier informed me that my gift certificate was not $25 but $50. Triumphant, I would eventually arrive back to my room in Cabot with groceries for baking cookies (>$10), wall adhesive ($6), a flat-back garbage pail ($2), a full stomach ($4), two seat cushions and a throw pillow ($34), and a “nicer not necessary” bike helmet ($30). Later that day, I would nod at, not buy from, the loud Spare Change man outside ABP, and walk right past...