Word: cracking
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...inner city someone is doing crack and someone else is preaching a sermon about it. A Crip member warns a Blood wannabe not to clown him and then sells some coke to the fat white guy in the BMW form the suburbs...
...that anyone could, by that point. "The Last of the Mohicans" is incessantly and cheerfully violent, frequently in slow motion. Muskets crack and tomahawks fly. Dripping scalps are brandished. The music swells. A heart is cut out. Two hundred soldiers and 200 Indians writhe together in mortal combat, all on the screen at the same time, By the time that Uncas meets his tragic end, mortally wounded and flung from a high cliff, who cares? Besides, a nice little jig is playing while it happens...
Some sort of currency crack-up had seemed likely for months -- especially to the speculators. Germany's high interest rates, designed to hold down inflation while attracting investors to pay for rebuilding the former East Germany, angered Bonn's European partners, most of whom are fighting recession and prefer low rates to foster growth...
...unreasonable to believe that if drugs were legalized, people who stole and murdered for crack money in the past would now buy it with pay from a regular job. Teens would no longer need to cheat their employers and do favors for dealers in order to smoke marijuana like other people drink Jack Daniels...
...throng, which has been growing steadily, surges ahead. The red iron gates have eased open a crack, enough to let through a single file of supplicants. Inside, 12 Somali guards dressed in battle fatigues and armed with M-16 rifles issue orders. Wielding 3-ft. wooden switches, they herd the people into neat rows at the rear of a large earthen courtyard. In 30 minutes more than 2,000 people are seated on the ground while others stream in: nomad women wrapped in black shawls, grandmothers in tattered sackcloth, lone children naked but for a makeshift shirt. At one point...