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In one, the teen-age Stevens writes a dead-on Stevensian description of a motley village band--"the piping of flamboyant flutes, the wriggling of shrieking fifes with rasping dagger-voices, the sighing of bass-viols, drums that beat and rattle, the crescendo of cracked trombones."
A day later, House Majority Leader Dick Armey, R-Texas, told the Associated Press he had "cracked up" over Gore's claim: "If the vice president created the Internet, then I created the interstate highway system."
How their dream cracked up, resulting in the pablum of today's PBS, and how PBS became Washington's most politically skittish organization, is the subject of James Ledbetter's brief history, Made Possible By ...
Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic cracked down on political opponents after two weeks of escalating public demonstrations.
There was a phase a while back when I filled with resolve, for reasons then unclear to myself but transparent to any female who has ever cracked the pages of a McCall's or Family Circle , to cook hot meals at breakfast.