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cranky

mod. irritable; fretful. Don’t be cranky. We’re almost there.
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That's when he comes face-to-face with soapworld's crankiest publican, Tadhg O Direain, and resident barfly Seamus O Cathain.
We love telly; Cameo is small fry
Based on more than a thousand interviews, written in broad imaginative strokes, this book, at 622 pages, is something of an anomaly in today's shrinking world of nonfiction publishing: a narrative epic rigorous enough to impress all but the crankiest of scholars, yet so immensely readable as to land the author a future place on Oprah's couch.
History
An intelligent doctor, who eschewed the crankiest therapies of the age in favour of a new scientific approach, he popularised Peruvian bark (a source of quinine) for fever and championed smallpox inoculation.
The great experiment: the Royal Society was founded in 1660 to promote scientific research. Through a process of trial and error, this completely new kind of institution slowly discovered how its ambitions might be achieved--often in ways unforeseen by its founders
Even the crankiest person at work is going to be nice to you until the end of the month.
TIPS TO EASE 20-TENSION
YOU and your team should hold your heads high--for the toughest, crankiest, thinnest-skinned audience on earth, you delivered.
A death in the family
After his 20-year affiliation with the black-nationalist minister Jeremiah Wright became well known, Obama the Muslim was transmuted for the crankiest of them into Obama the Antichrist, complete with pertinent quotations from the Book of Revelation.
Obama rules
The conductive quality of cast iron smoothes out the uneven heat of the crankiest electric burners, gently sweats onions and brings frying oil to just the right temperature and keeps it there.
Cooking with cast iron: the hottest trend in cookware goes back thousands of years
Though younger, Joshua managed to handle even the crankiest of phone- call recipients.
TEEN VOLUNTEER'S SUPPORT FOR OBAMA RINGS TRUE CAMPAIGN: BOY MAKES RECORD NUMBER OF CALLS FOR DEMOCRAT
As the two stories weave together, Mighton spices things up with vividly drawn supporting characters, like crusty Agnes (Barbara Gordon), the crankiest of patients; nurse Tammy (Maggie Huculak), who may be skimming money from her charges; and the Reverend (Randy Hughson), easily prone to tears and bad homilies ("Life is like an endless trip to the Laundromat").
Half-life
For just small monthly or day fees, kids can enjoy a premier aquatic sports facility; even the crankiest tots will laugh with glee on the twin water slides.
Places to take the kids: cool family fun for the long, hot summer
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