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If we have a wall of windowpanes and one pane is cracked, we go, "Oh, dear.
That's cracked.
Because that's what you do with a cracked pane.
This year, unfortunately the lakebed's turned into an absolute cracked dry bed.
Why wouldn't they just go to a shop and buy a bag of nuts that somebody else had already cracked open for them?
And he was soon controlling huge servers around the world where he stored his games that he had cracked and pirated.
And I remember the horror of seeing this little female devil with this huge ulcerating, foul-smelling tumor inside her mouth that had actually cracked off her entire lower jaw.
The computer was cracked open.
"I'm OK." Then my daughter called, my voice cracked, and I knew I had to pull myself together.
The military council has cracked down on civil society and protests and the country's economy continues to suffer.
The group lived on a grassy island, and we had to isolate him in a cage, but we cracked open the cage so that the rest of the chimps still had access to him.
I've cracked stages in Soweto, buried abortion babies in potter's field and still managed to keep a smile on my face, so whatever you curse at me to your caddyshack go-for-this, go-for-that assistant when I walk out that door, whatever slander you send my way, your mother.
You know, who is going to say that we cracked this thing of the dependence on fossil fuels, with all that being held to ransom by rogue regimes, and so on.
I've cracked the code.
I was there covering the 25th anniversary of the world's worst nuclear accident, as you can see by the look on my face, reluctantly so, but with good reason, because the nuclear fire that burned for 11 days back in 1986 released 400 times as much radiation as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, and the sarcophagus, which is the covering over reactor number four, which was hastily built 27 years ago, now sits cracked and rusted and leaking radiation.
Well, they didn't revolt, and in 1941, ASCAP cracked.
The bone is cracked.
The first day of the hunt, they didn't see a single bear, so it was a big bummer for everyone, but the second day, the dogs cornered one after a really long chase, but by that point, the president had given up and gone back to camp for lunch, so his hunting guide cracked the animal on the top of the head with the butt of his rifle, and then tied it up to a tree and started tooting away on his bugle to call Roosevelt back so he could have the honor of shooting it.
It cracked open my world.
The risk is that if somebody figures out how to crack the first challenge without also having cracked the additional challenge of ensuring perfect safety.
And it worked: Ahead of all the other companies tackling this hard problem, this group cracked it first.
As a boy, Henry had cracked his skull in an accident and soon began having seizures, blacking out and losing control of bodily functions.
So, determined to disprove his mother's warnings, he cracked the knuckles of his left hand repeatedly for 50 years, while the right-hand knuckles went unpopped.
They also cracked down hard on terrorism, but Indonesia's democrats have learned a key lesson from the dark years of dictatorship, namely that repression only creates more extremism.
Then, collect your cracked nut in safety.
It didn't work perfectly, but I still think they sort of cracked the door ajar on a Pandora's box here.
But I was real cracked up: not exactly having a nervous breakdown, but not too far off, and awful sad either way.
Now, while Mitch Daniels applied this at the federal level, the state level, and in higher ed, the guy that really cracked the code for cities is a Democrat, Martin O'Malley, during his time as Mayor of Baltimore.
And when the White House cracked down on so-called "undocumented migrants" in sanctuary cities, hundreds of cities and counties and states sat up in defiance and refused to enact that order.
Moore's Law was just the last part of that, where we were shrinking transistors on an integrated circuit, but we had electro-mechanical calculators, relay-based computers that cracked the German Enigma Code, vacuum tubes in the 1950s predicted the election of Eisenhower, discreet transistors used in the first space flights and then Moore's Law.
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