Word: cranked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...primary significance of the win is that they were down a set," said Assistant Coach Peter Mandeau. "But they still found a way to turn the energy around and crank it up to the next level to win nine of the next 10 games to clinch the match...
...their feet. From the outset, DHC never sinks into the mediocrity of Honey, I'm Homely. For almost an hour, the California quinlet instead offers a little sunshine to ward off the inevitable autumn harbinger of the approaching cold. The audience has no problem immediately warming up and DHC crank out song after song without any disappointment. Whether jumping in unison to the band's appeal or shouting along to favorite tunes, the crowd never stops consuming the band's energy and feeding off of it like a necessary drug...
...dinner in LoHo have been lacking in the necessity of FroYo (nature's version of heavenly ambrosia). Now, LoHoCo chairs promise that a recently acquired machine will soon be plugged in, turned on and dispensing creamy delights. Why the delay, Dartboard asks? If the machine is here, let's crank it up ASAP. But the FroYo gods evidently did not consult with Hephaestus and his team of electricity gods before smiling on Lowellians. Circuitry in the dining hall requires some reworking lest Harvardians blow a fuse or two while mixing strawberry and cappuccino...
...phones and come from all areas of Brazil, he has done little to track the long-term effects of his procedure. Surgeons in Brazil were no more eager than most American doctors to accept Batista's claims. "When I first heard of this procedure, I thought he was a crank, one of those mystic doctors who periodically appear in Brazil," says Roberto Franken, a Sao Paulo cardiologist who has only recently accepted Batista's procedure. Critics do not bother Batista, though, because he believes so strongly in what he is doing. "Either I'm crazy or they are wrong...
...swigging tequila around a blazing fireplace. They narrate the day's maneuvers with swooping hand gestures while a giggling, shirtless young prostitute looks on. She seems unimpressed by the flyboys' classified briefing. At the bar, a middle-aged cowboy quietly raves about a plot to swamp Nevada in methamphetamine ("crank"). The cowboy doesn't want his name used (few people do out here), but he does want the alleged drug ring to know he's on to them. "I have a friend who personally knows the retired politician who's behind all this. And believe me, this politician...