Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time since it was enacted in 1988, a federal statute has been invoked to permit capital punishment for violent drug traffickers. In this case, the sentencing came against a trio of brutal Richmond, Virginia, cocaine dealers who murdered 11 people over a two-month period while running a lucrative crack gang called the New York Boyz. In one instance the gang burst into the house of a woman who owed them a few hundred dollars and shot her dead...
...they rebuild homes wrecked by Hurricane Andrew. By night they drink, fight, smoke crack and sometimes kill. In the squalid roadside camps they call home, shotguns and 9-mm pistols abound, as do the tools of their trade: roofing knives. In one case a roofer's throat was cut so deeply he was nearly decapitated. In another a roofer shot and stabbed a drifter 100 times. Soldiers who patrolled the area say they saw a roofer bite off another man's ear, then spit...
Topfer also criticized companies that refuse to take responsibility for the damage they do to the environment, and said governments must crack down on such businesses...
Only during exam period--when more students finally decide to crack open a few books--does life appear among the ugly wood paneling. But it's safe to say that more students use government documents on a regular basis throughout the semester than cram on Lamont's first floor during reading and exam period...
...ragtime era, but there were a host of others, many of them (yes!) women. Twelve are represented on FLUFFY RUFFLE GIRLS, an irresistible CD by pianist Virginia Eskin (Northeastern). May Aufderheide, probably the best known of the dozen, showed with infectious rags like The Thriller! that she could crack knuckles with the big boys. Also noteworthy are two elegiac rags by the contemporary composer Judith Lang Zaimont, which prove there's life in the old genre yet. Eskin captures all the insouciant charm of the country's first great popular music, and firmly observes Joplin's admonition that...