Word: cranks
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...stunned hosts "partisan hacks" who were "hurting America" by dumbing down the political discourse. Carlson countered that Stewart had acted like Senator John Kerry's "butt boy" by throwing him softball questions. "You're on CNN," Stewart said. "The show that leads in to me is puppets making crank phone calls." "I was just shocked by how sanctimonious he was," Carlson later told TIME. "I thought, This must be some elaborate routine, and there's going to be a punch line at the end." Which there was, sort of. "You're more fun on your show," Carlson told the comic...
...friend and I decided that we were going to try to get a dance party started in the dining hall. So we went and talked to a few of the people working there and were like, “Do you think you could crank up the music and turn down the lights?” They couldn’t turn down the lights, but they did turn up the music, but they didn’t have the kind of music we were talking about. It was just like the Greek folk music. It turned out being kind...
...this city of 1 million lives for music. By day, battered taxis blare out foot-stomping beats, while old men cross roads with radios glued to their ears. By night, Bamako is a riot of noise as singers ululate at wedding parties and the city's many music venues crank up the bass...
...This city of 1 million lives for music. By day, battered taxis blare out foot-stomping beats, while old men cross roads with radios glued to their ears. By night, Bamako is a riot of noise as singers ululate at wedding parties and the city's many music venues crank up the bass. Perhaps surprisingly, there is more than a little flavor of Cuba here - partly due to commerce, and partly due to shared rhythmic heritage. Yet each ethnic or social group (ranging from the singer-storyteller caste known as griots to the Fulani and Tuareg tribes...
...When training on his bicycle, Blake uses the SRM Powermeter, a data-crunching disc attached to the bike's crank arm. Invented by a German company, the device measures the power and rhythm of each pedal push, as well as the cyclist's heart rate. He's even got gizmos working for him as he sleeps. Blake has pitched a plastic "high-altitude tent" atop his queen-size bed at his home in Victoria. A compressor pumps in air containing 15% oxygen, equal to the rarefied air 3,000 meters above sea level, compared with 21% oxygen at sea level...