Word: cranked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This Guy's a Loser." Neither Nixon nor Romney is by any means out of the running yet. Of Romney, Oregon's McCall declared: "Somebody just has to crank him up again." Having taken the lead too early, he has deliberately slowed the pace of his presidential campaign. But his supporters are convinced that once he begins campaigning, he will prove, as he has three times in Michigan, that he is a tireless, dynamic and nigh unbeatable stumper...
...most simplistically self-righteous act of interference came when administrators at UCLA chose to act on complaints from several students or their families that pictures of nudes were being shown in an art history course. Crank complaints of this sort have apparently occurred as long as art history courses have been given but significantly enough have been ignored prior to Reagan's becoming Governor. In a state where the public schools are headed by a man so reactionary he opposes use of textbooks mentioning the UN, it is frightening to contemplate extension of this conservative vise-grip to higher education...
...wildest places," says Inter-Continental Chairman John Gates, "because we concentrate on areas where tourism needs to be developed. In the back of the house, we crank in all the American know-how and labor-saving efficiency, while in front we try to achieve the personalized standards of European service...
...ruling that Exit "has a tendency to deprave and corrupt," Magistrate Gradwell ordered his three copies destroyed and in effect banned all future sales-a decision that actually applies only to his own Soho district. Despite that limitation, said one alarmed British publisher, Gradwell's precedent invites "any crank to start proceedings against a book he does not like. All you need is a friendly magistrate." As a result, the publishers are now practically begging the government to prosecute-with a jury. Their hope is obviously to give the book nationwide legal approval. Watchdog Black...
...months, two governments and three Prime Ministers ago that Britain's application for membership in the six-nation Common Market was brusquely vetoed by Charles de Gaulle. Though the guillotine was dropped by the general, the Tories, then in power, undoubtedly helped crank it up into lethal position by their haggling over petty details. Moreover, the Labor Party opposed entry all along and, for that matter, many British businessmen breathed a sigh of relief at having escaped the threat of immediate Continental competition...