Word: cranked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Reading jokes bout the famous Harvard crank caller into the same text he cares so much about, Geller switches easily in and out of the worlds he straddles. One minute he's the diligent Jew who wakes up at 7 a.m. for morning services, who organizes the prayer leaders, who worries whether Hillel's dining hall is kosher enough. The next, he's flying a single-engine airplane across the Seattle sky, or dressing in costume, or programming at Microsoft...
...allowed to take 15-minute breaks every four hours. So I crank up the Home Theater, just to blow the carbon out of its cylinders, and zip down the main street of the Metaverse to a club that specializes in my kind of tunes. I'm still ``wearing'' my Raster uniform, but I don't care -- I'm just one of thousands of Rasters running up and down the street on their breaks...
...wish I still had my 1937 ``stupid'' car, a six-cylinder Dodge with no gadgets. For air conditioning, I would crank open the windshield, and I got a consistent 18 m.p.g. Pity the poor smart-car buyer who has a breakdown in the boonies...
...standard of living has already collapsed by 50%, but the repressive apparatus remains efficient and loyal,'' she argues. For 36 years, dissident Cubans have calculated that their chances of reaching the U.S. on a raft are better than those of unseating Fidel. If a tighter embargo does crank up the pressure on Cuba, the exodus might only intensify...
These days, The Jerky Boys' managers make follow-up trips to the businesses they crank in order to obtain release forms for use of the material on their albums. Most of Brennan and Kamal's "victims" acquiesce when they hear the tape of their conversation with a Jerky Boy. Many of the targets appreciate the hilarity of their little chats; others see a chance at five minutes of recorded fame...