Word: cranked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...single greatest flaw relates to its pace. The College assumes we can be made good writers in the space of a single semester of our first year. Within a few weeks, we must complete four essays (two drafts of each) and several smaller assignments. No sooner do we crank out four 10-to-12 pagers than the semester is over; our only certain improvement is our adroitness at fast writing. Instead of mastering the careful craft of revision, we are pushed into a cycle of the bi-weekly expos "all-nighter...
Unlike her British counterpart, who is expected to crank out disposable verses on such occasions as the birth of a member of the royal family, Dove is only required to deliver one public reading of her own work and organize appearances by other writers. Beyond that, her task is to promote poetry in whatever way she chooses...
...think that we were harassed all last year bythese tutors," Li said, adding he received anumber of crank phone calls. "Because theUniversity did not put a check on [theharassment], we tried to see how we could protectourselves against further shenanigans...
...genuinely enjoy writing these pieces because they're obscenely easy. If you set 10 monkeys down in front of this Dell 210 Workstation, they could crank out columns like this with enough time before deadline to actually read Hamlet. That's because the University of Pennsylvania provides enough intellectual ammunition to supply an entire industry of nasty, lazy, hungover editorialists like me. And that's a pretty tall order, given how many people are nasty, lazy, hungover or some combination of the three. Luckily, Penn never lets us folks down. Here's their latest offering...
...Cosby is driven by his civil rights zeal. If an ambition to be America's most prominent black big shot is zeal for civil rights, then sure. But Cosby's moralist impulses are often a crank's misguided preachiness. In 1988 he joined the race-baiting Tawana Brawley scam. His NBC, according to associates, would have no place for a bad-attitude show such as The Simpsons...