Word: cranked
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Schweitzer and Zoltan stuck with their bread and butter—they employed hard, aggressive strokes and “they’d just crank their forehands,” said Chu—but according to the Harvard senior, "we kept serving solidly and playing solidly, and we broke...
...While in the parlors of indignation," Saul Bellow wrote, "the right-thinking citizen brings his heart to a boil." Bellow's character Moses Herzog did that. Herzog wrote crank letters to ex-wives, to Dwight Eisenhower, to Adlai Stevenson, to Spinoza. "There is someone inside me. I am in his grip," Herzog confessed. It was as if his mind had been hijacked...
Thus sang female Marines as they marched in cadence through twelve weeks of boot-camp training at Parris Island, S.C. until Peter Berle, president of the National Audubon Society, fired off a letter to Marine Commandant General Paul X. Kelley. "A tough Marine may well consider this as another crank letter from a pansy," wrote Berle, a former Air Force intelligence officer and veteran of 94 parachute jumps. But, he protested, the women could find some way to celebrate their toughness other than "idolizing people who squash birds' heads." Brigadier General Donald Miller, Kelley's top spokesman, promptly sent...
...lawn mower doesn't get stuck on twigs. The VCR makes it possible for working people who are not insomniacs to look at movies that are shown only at 3 a.m. Does anyone remember that you once had to bend over and give a violent turn to a hand crank before a car would start...
...piano, now you can live your dream of wailing on a six string. The fret board on Optek's PC-connected Fretlight guitar optekmusic.com $600) lights up to show you where to put your fingers for chords and melodies. Ready for your world tour? Plug into any amplifier, crank up the volume, and pray that those desktop lessons paid off. --By Wilson Rothman