Word: crackings
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...latest in a long tradition of making cheap Asian knockoffs of Western products, from Gucci bags to Harry Potter to Microsoft. Businesses are furious about a practice they say costs $200-250 billion a year in lost revenue and have made it a priority to pressure foreign governments to crack down. But if Americans are really serious about stopping cross-Pacific piracy, we might want to start with our own movie industry...
...swears with authority. He wears an entirely leather jumpsuit and he doesn’t look uncomfortable. His head is half-shaved, half covered with tattoos. When horrendous rap is blaring in the background and he is killing vampires with semi-automatic weapons, he doesn’t even crack a smile...
...crack of a bat, the pop of a glove, the infield chatter—these are the sounds that define him. His voice registers only the number of outs in an inning, though he might encourage a teammate at the plate in a clutch situation. On the field, the voice is secondary; the glove and the bat speak...
...fought off our sleepiness (it was 9 a.m., practically the crack of dawn) by musing over the possible reasons we’d stayed away so long...
...danger of not finishing in the top eight—provided the team stays healthy and barring a major unforeseen meltdown of some kind—the Crimson is in danger of not qualifying for home-ice advantage come playoff time. And if Harvard doesn’t crack into the top four, they are guaranteed to play one of the top 4 teams in the nation in the first round of the playoffs...