Word: cranked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heat of the campaign, emotions have got out of hand. A gay worker was hospitalized after a beating; others have received crank calls. Urges a bumper sticker: KILL A QUEER FOR CHRIST. After receiving many telephone threats, Jack Campbell, a gay-rights leader, has installed guards around his house. Bryant has also hired security men because of phone warnings...
Leslie finds that when men are competing against her they tend to become unglued after watching her crank out drives well over 200 yards down the middle of the fairway. "Some guys when they find out they're playing me try to kill the ball," she says. "It really wrecks them...
...tale. The parallels between Arthurian chivalry, Southern gentility and Christian militancy are in fact a single strand in Percy's fabric. He is a severely and sincerely Christian novelist who may speak from the fictional mouth of a potential madman to acknowledge the difference between a Cassandra and a crank...
...call him a crank doesn't do justice to his cause or convictions," Warburg said after the reading...
White's collections of essays (One Man 's Meat': The Second Tree From the Corner) have proved him a master of belles-lettres. This collection makes him a master of crank letters as well. Many of them may seem too personal to amuse any but White's immediate family. But the author's journalism and classic children's books-Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little-have expanded that family by millions. Moreover, readers of the Letters of E.B. White may be purchasing a textbook at no extra price. In a brief note...