Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...capable of carrying out sabotage and murder for the foreseeable future. The A.W.B.-aligned Volksfront is planning acts of & civil disobedience aimed at provoking confrontations with government security forces. Many South Africans may think it fitting if the A.N.C. chooses to use some of the same methods to crack down on the right that the apartheid government used against its freedom fighters for the past 46 years...
Enough is enough. Professional sports should take a page out of the NHL's book and crack down on violent conduct. (Dale Hunter, are you listening...
...watched G. Brent McGuire '95, peninsula council member, take the mike early in the evening and begin to crack jokes. Before he made too much of a fool of himself the mike was cut off, but before every person watching could see one conservative's expression of his "compassion" for the issue of stopping violence against women. Perhaps this illustration from someone purportedly in he same camp twill help kelly realize what these women are up against...
...seemed in many ways the odd woman out among her generation of U.S. poets, and not only because of her gender. Elizabeth Bishop (1911-79) suffered none of the public breakdowns, burnouts and crack-ups that afflicted such talented contemporaries as Robert Lowell, Delmore Schwartz, John Berryman, Randall Jarrell and Theodore Roethke. "You are the soberest poet we've had here yet," a secretary at the University of Washington once told her; she cherished the comment and repeated it to others. Bishop's public image seemed serene -- photographs taken well into her middle years invariably show small features arranged impassively...
...easier, and the proverbial fish and cotton are starting to rise from their slumber. Moreover, since this column will hereafter strictly concern politics, education and books, this may be my last opportunity to reflect quixotically on eros and the public sphere. Indulge me this once, and then forever after, crack the scourge of reason upon my back...