Word: craning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Legend of Sleepy Hollow," in The Sketch Book, Washington Irving. From one Irving to another, and this one is utterly different. But both Irvings share a delight in the grotesque, and Ichabod Crane is to Halloween, after all, what Dicken's Scrooge is to Christmas. This is must mid' o' the night reading, a story you can feel down deep in your Brom bones...
...hotly contested treasurer's race, incumbent Democrat Robert Crane led Republican Joyce Hampers by 46 percent to 29 percent...
...Crane's greatest challenge is to combat his image as an old-time Bay State pol building his personal finances on his ability to to dispense patronage...
...Massachusetts Lottery, which Crane administers, pays out a larger percentage of the profits to winners, and has almost twice as many employees as any other state lottery. It also spends an unusually large amount on advertising, which has included television spots featuring Crane, and full-page newspaper ads filled with names, which are headed "Treasurer Crane's Unclaimed Money List...
...amendment was opposed by Kevin Crane, Wasserman's attorney, who said that it was unfair that Wasserman be singled out by the council...