10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CRANKIER»
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crankier in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
A Certain Wolfish Charm
In Lydia dare's debut trilogy, Regency England has gone to the wolves!
January 2006 I'm not crankier I It's the world's fault! Carol has commented that the
expletives echoing off the walls of my office seem to be louder and more frequent.
"You're getting crankier," she said. "Lighten up a bit." "I'M NOT CRANKIER!
3
Shifting Interludes: Selected Essays
As. the. Years. Go. By,. Do. We. Grow. Crankier. —. Or. More. Tolerant? A couple
of months ago, on my sixty-first birthday, a comrade jocularly asked, "Do you see
yourself growing more intolerant, or more tolerant?" It was a beguiling question, ...
Morris, Willie, Jack Bales
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Conversations with Willie Morris
It's titled "As the Years Go By, Do We Grow Crankier or More Tolerant?" and it's
included in the new Reader's Digest anthology Are You Old Enough to Read This
Book?: Reflections on Midlife [1997]. Morris: I've been reading this Reader's ...
Willie Morris, Jack Bales, 2000
5
ChildDance: The Healing Art of Movement, Music, and Play ...
Babies, on the whole, were a lot crankier, cried more, and slept more poorly than
their predecessors had some fifty years ago. Babies did not need more time
sitting in chairs and swings. They needed more time on the floor exploring and
more ...
... was I. I played games with them, I read them books, I made them pimento
cheese sandwiches on white bread with the crusts cut off. But as the night wore
on they got crankier and crankier. Where are mommy and daddy? Where did they
go?
Barbara Brown Taylor, 1995
7
Getting Here from There: Conversations on Life and Work
I could have been more optimistic in my career ifI had set my For example, after
being a faculty member for twenty years, and getting crankier and crankier about
what I thought should be done, I took an administrative position as academic ...
Margaret R. Miles, Hiroko Sakomura, 2011
All I know is that you've been getting crankier and crankier lately. What they all
said was true. You did say you'd do all the housework, since you're home all day.
So, just what is your problem?” “Hasn't it ever occurred to you that this whole ...
9
A Patchwork of Comforts: Small Pleasures for Peace of Mind
I start talking faster and faster, and get crankier and crankier. Luckily, today is a
Diane Day. Her soft, sincere voice always calms me down. In walked my angel,
with her calm-o-meter registering 1 0. The static in my head slowed down, and ...
sneered Paul. "You're getting crankier and crankier every day. I'll bet you're just
huffy because Brill didn't ask you first." Neil flushed, but kept his temper. "You don
't think anything of the sort, Paul. Besides -" "It looks that way," muttered Paul.
Ralph Henry Barbour, 1st World Library, 2006
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CRANKIER»
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Hillary Clinton—She's Just Like Us!
Our emails are more hurried and less carefully crafted, written during our crankier and less considered moments, rather than our most ... «The New Republic, Jul 15»
Stop the Boats, Death Cult: why slogans are the lowest form of …
However, with every passing day slogans are making me crankier. Reductio ad absurdum. Every political proposition, no matter how complex ... «The Australian, Jul 15»
Well | Think Like a Doctor: Limping Along
He was developmentally slower, maybe a little crankier, but a beautiful and loving little boy all the same. He hadn't started talking yet. He had ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
King County Executive Dow Constantine preys on our misery
With the office AC temporarily offline, I got crankier and crankier with the rising temperature to the point where, perhaps in a fever dream, ... «MyNorthwest.com, Jul 15»
Lisa Kudrow Can't Get Valerie Cherish Out Of Her Head
But I was kind of nervous, and when Michael [Patrick King] and I started writing, the voice of Valerie sounded a little crankier to me. And I went ... «Huffington Post, Jun 15»
The 20 Best Nature Runs Amok Movies
Even crankier is Leslie Nielsen, who plays a bullying member of the expedition exposed to the same radiation, which makes him get mean and ... «Den of Geek!, Jun 15»
What do libertarians and Stalin have in common? Plenty
Rand Paul has somehow moderated the crankier side of the movement that has shaped his career. Though isolationism is built into ... «BusinessWorld Online Edition, Jun 15»
Children enrich our lives
They were up early and as such crankier than usual. As I was trying to get ready for work and daycare drop offs, dealing with pushing, biting, ... «Bundaberg News Mail, Jun 15»
Neil Young blasts Donald Trump over song usage
Neil Young is crankier than usual over Donald Trump using “Rockin' In The Free World” as his campaign song. The real-estate mogul and ... «SFGate, Jun 15»
Why libertarianism is closer to Stalinism than you think
Rand Paul has somehow moderated the crankier side of the movement that has shaped his career. Though isolationism is built into ... «Daily Mail, Jun 15»
