Word: cranked
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Walt Kowalski is, to put it gently, an old crank, given to growling and spitting like a distempered stray. He's a mass of gruff prejudices against the minorities who've moved into his Michigan town. When some kids brawl in front of his house, he brandishes a rifle and actually shouts, "Get off my lawn!" In any other movie, he'd be the sour comic relief or the monster's first victim. But since, in Gran Torino, he's played by Clint Eastwood, Walt is a stalwart man of the Midwest--the hero who has a score to settle...
...made an unassisted slick shot beneath Gopher goalkeeper Jenny Lura’s skate, straight into the net to tie the game. The third period saw the most action overall, starting with a goal at 2:43 from Minnesota’s Rachael Drazan. The Gophers continued to crank up the physicality, giving Harvard multiple opportunities to come back on power plays. But a strong Minnesota defense held the Crimson at bay until junior defender Kathryn Farni, assisted by classmate Cori Bassett, broke through on the power play at 12:21, tying the game...
...Read newspaper. Crank desk up to heady top speed of 2 m.p.h. This is the optimum velocity, the literature says, because you are moving but you won't break a sweat. I'm cruising...
...Child (OLPC), who believes it lies in a tiny green and white computer. Nicholas P. Negroponte, who spoke to a captive audience in the Science Center last night, explained his idea: using technology to revolutionize education in the developing world. The basic laptop, characterized by its bright yellow hand crank and once described as “enchanting” by Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, was developed by OLPC and is being distributed to school-age children in the world’s 50 poorest countries. The OLPC laptop, which is marketed to international buyers as a $100 item, actually...
...astringency, telling people what they don't want to hear. But his example of a leader who was great because he was astringent - Winston Churchill - never won an election through astringency. Throughout the 1930s, when he was warning of the Nazi peril, he was almost uniformly rejected as a crank. He was not elected Prime Minister in 1940; rather, he was installed by a Parliament that deferred general elections until after the war. And when one was finally held, in 1945, the British people promptly voted Churchill out of office. We need not only great leaders but also a public...