Word: cranked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Real Paper has also shown an ability to produce good investigative reporting, not the muck-faking that similar weekly papers often crank out. Recently it revealed that Suffolk Country Sheriff Thomas Eisenstadt, for example, spent public funds to furnish his house, spending money for velvet drapes, a Pakistani rug, even an escargot set. It was a story that the Real Paper beat The Globe to by several steps...
Constant Motion. Alas, the film makers believe that Wayne's public expects to see him in constant- if irrelevant- motion (most of what goes on here can scarcely be dignified with the term action). They crank up chase sequences that are unoriginal in conception and neglectful of the untapped opportunities London presents for cinematic excitement. Since Director Hickox has no apparent gift for adventure sequences, it may be just as well that he did not undertake situations that would tax his limited ingenuity. But it has been a long time since True Grit, and maybe one of our Bicentennial...
HOLE 11: 445 yds., par four (average score: 4.32). Here you really want to crank it up because your drive has to carry the crest of a hill. It's another hole favoring the big hitter, and your tee shot should be dead straight-the hardest kind of golf shot to hit. But it's the second shot that's the real tester here, 185-200 yds. if the pin is placed on the back edge of the green or to the left near the pond. But forget the pin placement and always -I mean always...
...Others were less impressed. The Emperor Franz Josef, proud of his nation's liberal airs, fumed: "What would have become of this ungrateful Herzl had there not been equality of rights for Jews?" Bismarck considered Zionism no more than "melancholy reveries." Even the Rothschilds saw Herzl as a crank and refused him funds...
...time, much of this seemed sheer perversity, a quixotic desire to be history's odd man out. But the truth of Orwell's observations slowly vindicated him. The writer was first characterized as a crank, then as an apostle of common sense, and at last, in V.S. Pritchett's phrase, "as the wintry conscience of a whole generation...