Word: cranked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...group that rejects the faith healing and speaking in tongues practiced by the Pentecostal PTL faithful. Amid last week's emergency pitch for donations, Falwell disclosed an apparent plot by dissident PTL members to sabotage his fund-raising efforts. During the funding telethon, PTL lines were jammed by crank and obscene calls. Falwell eventually announced that no pledges would be accepted over the telephone and urged donors to send checks by mail...
...weak voice was just above a whisper. "We need help. Can you please help us?" Border Patrol Agent Stanley Saathoff turned a crank to unlock the door of a red Missouri Pacific boxcar sitting on a siding in the small town of Sierra Blanca, 90 miles southeast of El Paso. A naked young man threw himself into the startled agent's arms. "You've been sent from heaven," the man moaned...
...While he presided at the Fed, the U.S. growing budget deficit steadily ballooned, eventually reaching a record $221 billion last year. This year the deficit is expected to shrink only to a still terrifying $175 billion. Volcker's great contribution has been to ensure that the Fed did not crank up the U.S. money supply -- and thus fuel inflation -- to accommodate the budget gap. Instead, the deficits have increasingly been financed by foreigners, chiefly Japanese, who in turn have looked to Volcker's continuing presence as a guarantee of the stability of their investments. From the Fed chairman's point...
Cruse took hostages and held off police for 7 1/2 hours before being captured. His toll: six dead, including two policemen, and 14 injured. The gunman, a retired librarian who is married to an ailing wife, had a reputation as a neighborhood crank. To one of his hostages, he explained his mindless massacre: "If I wasn't drunk, it wouldn't have happened...
...DESIGNS modern airplanes? Probably people with with lobotomies, because planes are stupidly constructed vehicles. Hardly anybody travels in groups of three, yet 727 designers crank out planes with seats in groups of three every year. For people travelling in pairs, this means somebody has to sit in that horrible middle seat--you know the one: the seat designed for people without arms. For people travelling by fours, it means three people get to sit together and the fourth person has to sit 15 rows behind...