Word: cranked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lawyers and court offices huddle together at the front of the room, turning the crank on the cases The judge is clearly in charge, but if you squint it's hard to see any differences in status between the bailiffs, the clerks, the lawyers and the judge. All of them are of the system. confident in her grey-faced roles...
...Asians and Asian Americans who are victimized by crank phone calls and racial slurs agree that "there are few if any racial harassment complaints"? Do Jewish students who find swastikas on their bathroom walls agree? Have Counter and Reid met Brigid Kerrigan '92 or did they refuse to be "dragged in" to that controversy as well? If Counter and Reid sincerely believe that there are no race problems at Harvard, then I would suggest they finally acquaint themselves with Dean Hilda Hernandez-Gravelle and her extensive files...
...song isprobably the least offensive-sounding, sotherefore the record company figured it would bethe least difficult thing to market as a single.It's not like, gee, guys, gotta write a single.Gotta write a pop tune. If we were to have goneinto the studio in July and said, "Let's crank outa hit single," we probably wouldn't have come upwith something like "Ratlesnake", because it'sreally not what's going on the airwaves right now.We would have gone and made something moresub-poppy, or something with a hip-hop beat andswirly things around it, and that would've been asell...
Several students reported receiving anti-Asian crank calls during the past few months. University police have transfered the investigation to the telephone company...
...many respects, the current slump is an extension of the mid-'80s energy bust that saw prices plummet to $9 per bbl. Just as the region was attempting to diversify out of its energy dependence, the gulf crisis suddenly forced prices to $40 in 1990, spurring some drillers to crank up rigs again. But when the war ended, hopes were dashed just as quickly; prices slid back down, and the small trickle of investment money dried...