Word: points
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...summer of 2005, my parents and I traveled to India for one month to visit the host of grandparents, uncles, aunts, and cousins they’d left behind. At one point during the trip, a police officer asked us to pull over our car. My dad was fully prepared to bribe him, the modus operandi when dealing with any uniformed Indian. But our American accents were enough to promptly dismiss the official, after offering to provide us with any assistance we might need. I giggled smugly along with the rest of my family, but I pitied the policeman...
...suppose remaining mindful can only improve one’s safety. Yet the number of advisories and preventive measures seem better suited for a game of “swine-flu dodging”—so let’s play. To win your first point, you have to make full use of the Purell dispenser by the entrance. I have overheard students comparing the dispenser to its counterparts in other Houses. “Lowell’s totally doesn’t work,” one student shared. One point, Quincy...
...game raises its stakes as you sit down to eat. According to tradition (invented right now), you have to dive for cover if someone sneezes in the beverage area. If this happens in the food line, for an extra point, a player can simply turn his head and no-look point to an H1N1 sign. The most difficult maneuver in the game, attempted and unconverted in one try so far, is to read HUDS’s on-table signs about swine-flu risks and then successfully mention “the crook of the elbow” in conversation...
...claim, and one will be safe from danger. But if the student next to you fighting to reach the last pizza slice has H1N1, then you may be bound for UHS’s quarantine rooms, regardless of whether his plate is clean or whether he earned his point for Purell...
...League competition looming this weekend. “It’s a good feeling to take into Friday,” Ingersoll said.Harvard’s performance was not as convincing out of the gate, however, and seemed uncoordinated on the attack. The two teams traded points early on, keeping close until the Crusaders used a kill from offensive maestro Megan Lynch to take a 10-7 lead. Soon thereafter, sophomore Sandra Lynn Fryhofer generated renewed life for the Crimson, letting loose a devastating kill before tossing out back-to-back service aces to tie the score...