Word: cranked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...postal clerk in Highlands, N.J., he recalls an uneventful childhood "in a white-trash town. I watched six hours of TV a day. I read comics and went to Mass on Sundays. In high school, I worked as a busboy. On weekends, we'd hang out and make crank calls and go drinking. Defining moments of my generation? When Fonzie jumped over the shark tank in Happy Days...
...live, be out of things as much as possible, without acting like a crank. Daydreams are part of reality too. When your old man was caught gazing out a classroom window, the teacher would ask him, "Would you care to rejoin the group?" He always thought, "Not really...
...against Netanyahu. Smelling blood, Labor politicians are hammering hard on the government's obvious ethical lapses. "He has lost the moral ground to govern Israel," argues aspiring Labor leader Yossi Beilin. "We are now trying to topple the government." Huddling in their party sanctum, Labor bosses have decided to crank up the pressure with pickets and street demonstrations. Shimon Peres, who was hoping to resume national leadership by joining in a unity government with Netanyahu, called for the Prime Minister's immediate resignation and for new elections...
...channel 2 or 4 or 7 -- no easy way to command major market share. If websites were channels, there would be tens of millions of them on the Net, which helps explain why every muffler shop, pizzeria and hardware store seems to have one, as well as every crank. And that is precisely what gives parents pause when they wonder what strange ideas and people their children may encounter on the electronic frontier. As a readily accessible soapbox, the Net attracts the same groups that have always tacked pamphlets on grocery store and college bulletin boards and placed tiny...
...channel 2 or 4 or 7 -- no easy way to command major market share. If websites were channels, there would be tens of millions of them on the Net, which helps explain why every muffler shop, pizzeria and hardware store seems to have one, as well as every crank. And that is precisely what gives parents pause when they wonder what strange ideas and people their children may encounter on the electronic frontier...