Word: cranked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...delicate truce with his principal opposition has enabled Andreotti, a seasoned politician who has three tunes been Premier and was a minister in 16 governments, to crank out an intensive program of austerity measures-including stiffer tariffs, higher government-controlled prices, and proposed wage restraints-aimed at curing the sickest partner in the European Common Market. Italy's current inflation rate is 18%, its internal deficit is estimated at $20 billion, and its foreign trade deficit has doubled in only a year, to $4.4 billion. So weak is the lira that it has to be supported...
...last season's Yale game hero, senior kicker Mike Lynch, needs to crank 11 more points over the crossbar to boot Richie Szaro '71 out as Harvard's all-time kick-scoring leader...
Despite its geopolitical subject, the result is a typical Bellow production: part meditation, part crank letter, tinged with the doubt of Ecclesiastes and the faith of Moses, full of quicksilver insights and deep Talmudic scholarship. It is as if the Messrs. Sammler, Humboldt and Herzog collaborated on a travel-cum-history book, pulling in several directions to keep it aloft...
Guns for Dope. To avoid teletyping their punches to possible targets of inquiry, the reporters refuse to discuss their activities publicly. Privately they complain of being snubbed by some Arizona journalists, harassed by crank calls and pressured by their editors to finish early and come home. No matter. The reporters say they have already dug up enough new information to turn the project from vindication of a slain colleague into a valuable story in its own right. "We've learned that heroin dealers in Arizona are selling guns to Mexican guerrillas in exchange for dope," reports one member. Says...
...clemency applicant until he can have his hearing. Moreover, Savannah Lawyer Bobby Hill, who has successfully fought the death penalty many times, announced that he would represent any condemned prisoner in Georgia who asks for help. Hill vowed to take each case back to the original convicting court and crank out every appeal imaginable...