Word: cranked
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...urinals in men's rooms, and on the backs of stall doors in women's rooms. The ads appear in 35 cities in the U.S., mostly in restaurants and bars where they reach customers in the coveted 18-to-34 age group. When Comedy Central was launching its show Crank Yankers last June, it hired Zoom to place ads in 500 bar rest rooms in four cities. Triggered by infrared motion detectors, the 16-in. by 20-in. posters played a snippet of audio from the show when customers approached. It probably goes without saying that these ads were placed...
...were not started. Very few of his machines would have worked either, and, of course, the famous ornithopters, helicopters and gliders that made him, in the eyes of an earlier generation, a sort of quattrocento Orville Wright never moved an inch into the air. Probably not even the crank-propelled tanks that he hoped would creep like lethal cone snails across the battlefields of northern Italy would have harmed anyone, even assuming that their sweating and straining occupants could have got their wheels to go round at all, which is beyond probability...
...years ago, doctors would have dismissed Valvo as a New Age crank. But these days he is solidly in the medical mainstream...
...troops from South Korea. "A unified Korea, if it turns more pro-China than pro-Japan, would be intolerable from Japan's perspective," says Takashi Inoguchi, a professor of political science at the University of Tokyo. For now, the world is still not dangerous enough for Japan to crank up its military machine. But that could change?and a nation's allergy toward combat could be cured overnight...
...difficult to hear these words coming from a man like Finneran and take them for anything more than the empty platitudes we all crank out around New Year’s, only to consign them to eternal oblivion a few weeks later. There is little doubt that Finneran will “listen” to what his few vocal opponents say—but it’s what he’ll do afterwards that counts...