Word: cracking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson had one final crack at the lead late in the quarter, taking the ball at its own 20-yard line off a touchback with 6:25 to play...
...remember, Candace Scott, 35, has suffered from a consuming addiction. Every spare cent goes to feed her habit, and her husband is hooked just as hard. O.K., so collecting items related to Ulysses S. Grant, the Civil War general turned President, is not as harmful as, say, crack cocaine. But it is now an obsession turbocharged by technology...
...audience. Walker flits gnomically through space and time to tell the story of an American family and its transformation from a repressed patriarchal unit to a spiritual sorority of free radicals. Fans of the well-focused The Color Purple may not appreciate Walker's looser style or such unintended crack-up lines as "...in the branches of the nearest tree lives the first cousin of your hair...
...issue among the government and technical communities is just how good encryption should be and where. Even with the key system of securing network data, a persistent set of fast computers can "crack" the key by trying different permutations of bits. With the increasing speed of computers, keys get more complicated...
...BUSTED (1990) Washington Mayor Marian Barry smokes crack cocaine...