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My window is cracked, just a bit, and the air plays on my forehead like a cold whisper.

The first time I did so, my grandfather told me, to a cracked or flawed into a bucket of eggs, well take the matter to the bakery.

Memory came rushing back: the stone man reaching out with cracked grey hands, the blood seeping from his knuckles.

e. g: Compelled by the situation, the police went into action and cracked down on the rebellion before it could grow out of control.

Some Americans and Europeans, particularly human-rights observers, say that China has cracked down on human rights over the last few years.

Swing ingredients in a shaker with cracked ice, strain into a chilled cocktail glass, and garnish with a slice of lemon.

"Damn you! " he said, "I cracked that box, and it was easy like you said. But I got busted by the FBI and thrown in jail" .

Perhaps, but recent experience makes me wonder whether insight is all it's cracked up to be.

And let me just say this about derivatives: You may know I went on to work at Merrill Lynch. Derivatives ain't all they're cracked up to be.

"My hands cracked and bled and I often cried in bed because of that, " she said.

The earth cracked a huge hole in the surface emitting lava, the sky rain down fire, flood Youyi overwhelming avalanche swept.

In the weeks that followed he did seem to be getting paler and thinner, but it didn't look as though he'd cracked yet.

They still needed to eat, however, so there was the emergence of a market economy. It may have been illegal, but no-one cracked down on it.

Asano has just climbed down from that bridge and is sitting on cracked steps leading up to a bronze, flower-laden statue of King Rama I.

Information used for attached identity verification shall be uneasy to be replicated, amended or cracked.

In one corner of the kitchen, a space monkey squats on the cracked linoleum and studies himself in a hand mirror.

Frenchman would never dream of doing a thing like that. . . unless he was as cracked as you are.

The first time I did it, he told me to put the ones that were cracked or flawed into a bucket for the bakery.

As Jobs cracked up, the applicant stood up to leave, adding: "I guess I'm not the right guy. "

Having been embarrassed once by such a gaffe, you might have thought that Apple would have cracked down hard on such careless behaviour.

But a few years earlier, while still at school, he'd actually cracked one of the big mathematical problems at the time.

The ground around the house is completely dry and cracked like the land in the Sahel Desert during the drought.

The combination lock was a bit more difficult, and the police have yet to release information pertaining to exactly how this was cracked.

Usually one or two green youngsters would have cracked some joke to make fun of such a customer, but today none of them said a word.

Critics say that it did not protect its servers sufficiently and used algorithms to encrypt data that can be easily cracked.

Being the spouse of a military soldier definitely isn't all that it's cracked up to be, but I do say it has made me a stronger person.

He said he had decided henceforth to accept every public speaking invitation that came his way until he had cracked it.

WHETHER America's famed philanthropic tradition is all it is cracked up to be will become much clearer during the next few years.

"Look what is sticking to the ugly old fir-tree, " said the child, treading on the branches till they cracked under his boots.

Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard said he felt the referee had been intimidated by Chelsea's players and had "cracked" .

It seemed as if Federer had finally cracked when, his mouth crumpling, he just managed to get the words out: "God, it's killing me. "

Instead, I stared at the cracked screen of my cellphone, waiting for a call.

Her skin was pink and tender, and a pale milky fluid was leaking from her cracked palms, but her burns were healing.

He's not nearly such a good writer as he's cracked up to be.

Sure a few people's heads got to get cracked every once in a while, to keep the peace, that's just the way it is.

"Lincoln was always conscious of his own mortality, " and the cracked-plate photograph conveys a certain fatalism, said Ward.

I pray that the next time you see an un-cracked nut, God will use that to solidify your understanding of forgiveness, just as He did for me.

She sat down on a bench and glared at her enormous cracked shoes.

The company cracked down on vendors selling counterfeit versions of Burberry clothes at discount rates.

Then when he began to load the sleigh one of the boards cracked and the toy bag fell to the ground and scattered the toys.

A second lesson is that the benefits to a small country of being part of a big currency union are not all they were once cracked up to be.

The recent excitement that this problem had been cracked has since evaporated and it remains one of the toughest on the mathematical books.

How can a conflicted guy in a bat suit and a villain with a cracked, painted-on clown smile speak to the essentials of the human condition?

The piston must be replaced if cracked or score Do not attempt to restore a scored piston surface by sanding or polishing.

Sam thought, as he walked up the cracked concrete path to the front door .

The Wall Street Journal has a piece today declaring happiness is not all it's cracked up to be.

I feel as if I'd been cracked over the head with a bottle.

Another, he admits, is that when one of his predecessors cracked down on smuggling, a mob burnt down the police station.

It is at least worth noting, however, that forest people are not always the tree-huggers they are cracked up to be.

Beijing cracked down on street vending ahead of the Olympics a year ago, and the number of peddlers in the city center remains diminished.

My bank, First Direct, seems to have cracked it, so I do not see why Citi thinks it is such a big deal.

Since McCluskey's killing, the police have cracked down on our operations, and also the other families. There's been a lot of bad blood.

What's up with the cracked airplane windows that have been showing up in the news?

It cracked down on nepotism, resulting in " thousands" of dismissals over the past two years.

And you ain't cracked up to what you was supposed to be!

In a number of high-profile cases, the police have cracked down on trafficking rings and publicized the results.

But a discarded piece of pizza and a relatively new method of DNA testing has finally cracked the case, police announced last week.

Together, they have mapped the surface in unprecedented detail, cracked open rocks, sniffed the atmosphere and dug down into the soil.

Only a madman would drive a juggernaut at full speed with a faulty speedometer, a cracked rear-view mirror and a misty windscreen.

So could it be that talking is not the marital cure-all it's cracked up to be?

Just as he reached the center of the thicket the dried twigs cracked again .

Steve Jobs claimed that he had finally "cracked the code" for TV, and part of that code was interacting with your TV.

One consumer website in particular has already cracked the problem of building easy-to-use collaboration tools with mass appeal.

Dad squeezed me a little tighter and his voice cracked, "Every single minute we were together was special. "

Hey, watch out! You almost dropped into that huge pothole. This asphalt is cracked and the road is all bumpy.

a woman dropped an upper millstone on his head and cracked his skull.

One day she kicked at a cracked sheep's skull with the side of a bare foot and sent it bouncing over the edge of the hill.

When the simple funeral was held in the Homestead's entrance hall, Emily stayed in her room with the door cracked open.

Last month police officers in Midtown cracked down and asked many trucks to leave their spots.

Lit up like an ocean liner, and making a noise like a blind man with his cracked cane.

He thought two of his ribs might already have cracked from trying not to laugh.

This came up a while back in a previous Cracked article.

the next day , he personally led the attack that cracked the american defenses and sent them reeling back.

This book isn't as good as it cracked up to be.

I suppose, however, he had this move in his mind-he was always half-cracked.

So is the traditional college education really alleged cracked, cracked up to be these days.

An evaluation of safety is done to a generator rotor cracked in a power station by the way of a fracture mechanics.

At a Sheraton hotel in downtown San Diego, the floor cracked opened and prevented the front doors from shutting.

The shots cracked and shattered the jar, leaving a glass collar around the skunk's neck. With its head free, the skunk ran off.

the accident victim suffered a punctured lung, two cracked ribs, a fracture of the left leg, and quite a few abrasions and lacerations .

Will Rogers was always assured of a laugh when he cracked: "American never lost a war and never won a conference. "

He joined her on the couch and cracked open a can of Dr Pepper, one of at least six that he drank that day.

Although Microsoft has a strong following among traditional coders, it has never really cracked the more visually oriented UI design market.

She carries with her a small cup filled with cracked corn, some of which she scatters on the ground.

"Today the forces of occupation are gathered at our gates, " he shouts, wildly gesticulating and with a voice cracked with emotion.

You can see how a network supervisor had his Cisco routers and switches cracked by a help desk technician within the company.

The shots cracked and shattered the jar. The skunk was left with a glass collar around its neck. With its head free, the skunk ran off.

He said one of the car windows was cracked but couldn't give any further details on the incident.

AMANPOUR: But is it because he's such a big name that he's not, you know, more seriously punished and cracked down, do you think?

He kissed the cracked single glass, as if the temperature of The Man's lid still remained.

and cracked his head soundly with her thimble.

Shake with cracked ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a lemon slice .

I use a cracked bowl as a planter pot or to hold potpourri.

Without a physical card to carry the software, downloaded DSiWare has yet to be reliably cracked by pirates.

For the Olympics, the government made clean air one of its top priorities and cracked down on violators.

There are pet shops and pet markets all over the place, that are selling large-size dogs and no one has cracked down.

Among his tricks: making a ring disappear and then reappear inside an egg, which he cracked open for the great reveal.

The effluent poured out of a reservoir at the MAL aluminium plant in nearby Ajka on Monday, after a wall cracked and collapsed.

The hard, woody, outer peel is so hard that it has to be cracked with a hammer.

At least one has apparently lost its cooling water and another is cracked and possibly losing water.

Unless my boy has cracked his head open on the wall corner or my wife's gone into labor, I don't want to know about it.

The aircraft cracked in two after it crashed at the end of runway 220, which lies very close to a rail line and houses.

Cheever. Cracked ribs, broken teeth, electrical skin burns -- all on a frail old lady at the end of her life.

Lastly, it needs to be covered with a layer of non-porous, non-cracked rock to provide a leakproof cap.

One of the glass panels in the front door was cracked.

He was simply not the genius he was cracked up to be.

In my clumsy attempt to quickly grab the phone, I knocked it off the kitchen counter and cracked the screen.

The cracked bed of a small dried up lake on unglaciated ground near to the southern end of the Humboldt glacier.

But he also cracked down on anti-Kremlin protests and refused to allow gay-pride marches, calling homosexuality "satanic. "

A missile , thought to be a brick , cracked a side window in the team coach as it arrived at the ground .

You sat on a rock, smooth, cracked, where the sun must for century upon century, without any regret, have cracked it.

The front basement wall was pushed in slightly, but was not cracked except at the ends.

As long as the area is not blistered or cracked, remove flakes of dead skin with a soft brush before using a topical powder or ointment.

So he made fine wires, and cracked glass, and all different kinds of materials to be a heat sponge.

You see, here on the Serengeti, the sound of a cracked eggshell is like a newsflash.

We severely cracked down on criminal activities in accordance with law and slowed down the rise in serious crime.

The old man's cracked lips spread into a wide grin, revealing tobacco-stained stubs that once were teeth.

Until the late nineteen sixties, the tomatoes that Heinz used to make ketchup often cracked open on the vine after a heavy rain.

a. Friendship is a vase, which, if it is cracked by accident, may as well be broken at once.

Syrian security officials have cracked down on the demonstrations, firing tear gas and live ammunition to disperse protesters.

The door has cracked open. We are all going to try to collectively crash through it.

Before over boxing, make sure that the inside box is in good condition and that the internal foam is not cracked or broken .

The inner earth has been stable except for the recent whale implosion which cracked the aurora and reeked havoc for a time.

Harmonic wavelet analysis was applied to the non-linear vibration signal analysis in the low frequency segment of a cracked rotor.

They questioned him for days before he cracked.

A few yards on, goats browsed among piles of garbage. We passed through a few streets with houses of mud and cracked concrete.

The cracked longitudinal beam of a coach was analysed by means of metallography and SEM .

It has been imposing stricter controls on mining and cracked down on unlicensed mining and smuggling.

However, most stars are not as bright as they are cracked up to be.

When she cracked it open, noxious fumes sent seven of her co-workers to the hospital and forced authorities to evacuate the building.

He had been looking at my hands as I cracked my knuckles, something I did only when I was nervous.

"Comodo Hacker" claims also to have cracked security at three other (so far unnamed) issuers.

He discovered the block hadn't cracked, it was just the bottom hose on the radiator.

Even as political debate blossomed, Iran's security services cracked down on religious and ethnic minorities.

On this day, the day he was assassinated, what I remember is the night we both cracked up drinking tea.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

The U. S. News computer analysis found that gambling companies have cracked the top five among interest group givers .

Jiang said China is "resolutely" opposed to so-called cyber crimes and has cracked down on such crimes, including hacking.

The final dimension of taste that remains to be cracked is bitterness, which is still somewhat of an unknown.

The Meng Jiangnu Shrine is built to the memory of Meng Jiangnu whose wails , as an old and widespread story goes, cracked the Great Wall.

When Iran cracked down on pro-democracy protesters in June, he muted his criticism for fear of disrupting the nuclear talks.

Bones cracked; the tonnage of its own flesh, off balance, dead weight, snapped the delicate forearms, caught underneath.

Separately, researchers have cracked the mystery of how stripe rust is able to overcome resistance in wheat so quickly.

A new overlaying method on old cracked concrete pavement is brought up in this paper.

The material can be used to repair cracked, chipped or broken graphite trays, boats, heating elements, susceptors, dies and electrodes.

In short, it s another encryption standard that has fallen victim to modern computing power and can be cracked in no time at all.

And I think that's why songwriting, to me, has been such a mystery, and still something that I haven't completely cracked.

A fly alighted on her cracked lips, and I brushed it away.

He thought little about it until he dropped one of the balls and it cracked open.

the wind whistled through the cracked walls.

The pictures of pinhole photography show the flying time, the running life and just like the disorder dreams and the cracked memory.

Dennis rubbed his hands together and cracked his knuckles.

AMANPOUR: So then they cracked down on him, right, in the Cultural Revolution?

Fellow artists, such as the Scotsman Archibald Hartrick, who knew him in Paris, considered Vincent harmlessly "cracked" .

Dark! The hollow voice cracked in alarm . Seagulls never fly in the dark !

they resorted to a ruse: They went as a delegation whose donkeys were loaded with worn-out sacks and old wineskins, cracked and mended.

Three pins were inserted a year ago, but the foot cracked in the playoffs and isn't healing.

If you are able to see the window, close the program, replace the exe with the cracked file.

The authors goal is to show a new idea used to predict and diagnose faults of a cracked rotor.

Chapped dry place accompanied by pain, commonly known as crack ulcer , people commonly known as cracked hands cracked feet.

This period has seen double income, as well as higher divorce rate; it has seen more florid houses, as well as more cracked families.

But it was enough that Jessica's voice cracked in panic as she called after me.

Crackle The radio cracked so much that we could hardly hear what was said.

Her bed was at the very end of the ward, near a cracked window thickened with grime.

She immediately thought of Julio, who once as unreachable as a hardened walnut, slowly cracked opened to reveal the eager child inside.

The old house slants towards the garden, because its beams are cracked with age.

One corner is cracked, so this might have happened in shipping.

Tepco said the cracked chamber, which is about two meters deep, contains roughly 20 centimeters of highly contaminated water.

The old man looked placidly from one to the other for a moment, and then suddenly spoke in a cracked and ancient voice.

Clayton and his team have done extensive research into phishing sites hosted on cracked web servers.

If it is too small, dynamite energy lose in broken zone and large cracked zone cant form, which influence blasting effect too.

At the end of the long walks from the stream to the house, the cracked pot arrived only half full.

Several of them have had to replace their iPhones due to cracked screens.

Walls and the ceiling cracked, sprinkling a fine, white dust.

Residents said some reservoirs were dry basins of cracked mud, while others could be seen filled with water and surrounded by green crops.

Clarereading, with her hair hanging over the back of the chair, massaging balm intoher cracked red hands before bed.

Ginger: You mean grass isn't all it's cracked up to be?

It is possible the steel lining inside the well is cracked or broken at some point.

We spent the rest of the morning helping Dan prepare for the meeting. He even cracked a smile.

Each of us has our own unique flaws. We are all cracked pots. In God's great economy, nothing goes to waste. Don't be ashamed of your flaws.

'I'm just fine, ' she said in a cracked voice.

Oil prices are a crucial driver. When oil prices went into orbit, retail sales cracked.

You can refer to Chang Sha Zhou Ma Lou's Bamboo's disposing method, dunking in distilled water, if it dehydrate, it will be cracked.

This expensive car is not whatit's cracked up to be.

Chandler: After years of struggling, you've cracked your way into show business.

The radio cracked so much that we could hardly hear what was said.

The Australian tax authorities, too, have cracked down on the use of payment cards to draw money from offshore bank accounts.

He ducked under a desk as the temblor struck with a force that cracked the walls, he recalled.

The ice cracked. The boy fell into the river and soon was out of his depth.

Although mouth, skin obviously getting cracked open, but I'm still enjoying spectacular panoramic views of nature: catching the feast.

Pictures sent back by the Voyager probes show that the glacier is cracked all over.

Liu cracked his whip violently across the head of the mule pulling Trinket's cart.

The graveyard was on a hillside, languishing beneath a chemical works, overgrown and crowded with cracked gravestones.

For there had been no rain for a long time. The crops withered, the grass turned yellow and fields cracked under the scorching sun.

When he asked how I could want the help of someone like him, who had worked only in losing presidential campaigns, I cracked, I'm desperate.

Separately, researchershave cracked the mystery of how stripe rust is able to overcome resistance in wheat so quickly.

Watch-maker: And the glass surface is cracked. It should be changed. The watch will look like new when I've got through with it.

The cracked bell of the small church began to ring.

Expected future PTA million gateway support is likely to eventually cracked, continue to seek end of down.

Anyway, I stuck with it, kept my head down, watching how some really talented people around me cracked things.

Cushion springs. If the cushion springs under the facings appear to be cracked or weak, the friction disk should be replaced.

The incident, in which one activist suffered cracked ribs, marked a dramatic escalation in hostilities between whalers and campaigners.

And other models put the incidence of an accident as little as two weeks away, due to the cracked and buckled stainless steel.

Still, within the region, only the securities operation of insurer Ping An Insurance (Group) has cracked the top 10 in that category.

but hertz flor of the university of heidelberg in germany , thinks she might have cracked it.

The real problem with the peace prize, as past laureates have discovered, is that winning isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Effective cracked tooth of therapy, endodontic treatment and full crown prosthesis can be prevention methods.

Colonel Qaddafi survived countless coup and assassination attempts and cracked down harshly afterward, alienating important Libyan tribes.

At the beginning of the speech the chairman cracked a joke.

"The Guardians have cracked down harder, " Qui-Gon said wearily. It was a familiar scenario.

Divorce isn't all it's cracked up to be, huh?

Human rights activists and dissident journalists began to complain more loudly, and the government cracked down even harder.

An NGO reported that in June local officials in North Hamkyung Province cracked down on illegal movies from the ROK.

Dead weeds and grass outlined the paving stones, and a cracked, broken fountain decorated the yard.

I was about to say Im not, but second later a beer bottle cracked my head, following with rigorous kicking.

After years of struggling you've cracked your way into show business.

A sulfur reduction catalyst useful to reduce the levels of sulfur in a cracked gasoline product comprises a metal vanadate compound.

The skin of some forms of this fruit is so hard that can be cracked open with a hammer.

The ground is cracked because there is no rain in the land; the farmers are dismayed and cover their heads.

however , the cantilever beam ' s concrete deck of this structure will be cracked easily at the negative moment region.

Their sneakers squeal on the cracked concrete floor as a ball is flung with rocket like force between long sticks topped with tiny nets.

But are such trials all they are cracked up to be?

My earliest memories from childhood are of brushing my teeth and of looking up at a cracked ceiling.

Objective: To evaluate comprehensive treatment result of 82 cracked teeth.

The energy release rate can also be established experimentally from measuring the compliance of the cracked body.

King Olaf asked, "What cracked with such a loud noise? "

well if someone with experience want to try my first version of itunes cracked. . . just post a message and i'll send u the file.

The peeling paint and cracked floor tiles exuded shabbiness and it was made narrower by the trolleys parked down the sides.

The slab has provided greater fixity to the top flange, and the adjacent web gap has experienced greater deformation and has cracked first.

But others see her as a pioneer trendsetter, crashing the glass ceiling long before Hillary Clinton cracked it.

Conclusions: Comprehensive therapy is an ideal method in treating cracked-teeth in elderly-patients.

And if your password wasn't among those "cracked and leaked, " did that mean you were safe?

But have no fear, we at Cracked are here to help.

However, some people think that magic is possible cracked predicted by Liu Qian way for the tour momentum.

The pavements on the streets and sidewalks was cracked and split, which made it difficult for emergency vehicles to get through.

This study evaluates the stress intensity factors of cracked coating-substrate composite media by the finite element method.

Life in the middle of Sendai appeared strangely routine Monday, apart from the cracked buildings and closed shops.

Bosom Buddy is an all-natural balm, made with nourishing plant oils and butters to protect and soothe sore, cracked nipples.

They spent 30 minutes on the bottom of the world before surfacing with their glass viewing ports cracked by the pressure.

A banker who has lost 80 per cent of his net worth says he is grinding his teeth so much that he has cracked two molars.

Recently, pyramid sale has begun to spread again after being cracked down repeatedly.

Results Cracked teeth were the main causes resulting in acute pulpitis of these molars, and often found from 31 to 60 ages.

Buffett's voice cracked. "Nick, " he said, anguished, "this is the most important day of my life. "

Since the steam had no way to escape, the teapot exploded. The explosion cracked a mirror and broke a window.

Arranged marriages with foreigners fell in Taiwan after the government cracked down on them, but they continue to rise elsewhere.

The customs officers cracked down on smugglers.

He cracked the burglar over the head with a vase .

Using finite element method, the stress transfer in a matrix cracked fiber reinforced composite is studied.

He's unkempt, even scruffy, and a pack rat who looks a little cracked.

The gas supply is both from late kerogen pyrolysis gas and crude cracked gas, with mixture feature of the same source and different stages.