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The Russian-Ukrainian political journalism world was stunned, but not particularly surprised, yesterday when a well known pro-Kremlin propaganda outlet published a lengthy anti-Semitic manifesto proclaiming that it was time to "drop the Jew taboo." Russia Insider, an English language publication with a crankish history of publishing nonsense and propaganda, published the manifesto, which contained a comprehensive litany of the most vile accusations against Jews dating back more than one hundred years.

The product of their meeting, dubbed the Aldrich Plan, envisioned a decentralized structure of fifteen reserve banks spread around the U.S., owned by an association of local banks, issuing a new national currency backed by gold--most of the functions of a central bank without looking like one, to appease Americans' crankish fears of banks and government domination.

I have also become somewhat crankish regarding what our students learn from us about constitutions in the United States.

I don't think it can be anything other than wonderful" Gurkhas' champion actress Joanna Lumley, as she received a hero's welcome in Nepal "I am not noted as a natural optimist" Chancellor Alistair Darling "Bacon that really smelled like a wet dog, nursery puddings of the most appalling kind, and the worst of the lot was the school trifle" Food writer and broadcaster Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, recalls the food during his time at Eton "It is no longer reasonable to think Ukip or the Greens are merely crankish parties, bound to fade away" Cross-bench peer Lord Rees-Mogg "Every year they ask me to do that programme, but I just can't do it and never will.

He could be crankish. Sometimes he was downright absurd.

In heedless pursuit of this agenda, what was once a crusade for tolerance has itself degenerated into a major source of crankish intolerance.

(6.) See Rowe-Evans's interview with Naipaul on how the "solitude and loneliness of the job" produces "crankish" behavior in writers (33).

She'd often find herself at loggerheads with crankish Jack Warner, who'd demand that she play in bombs like Stallion Road (which former President Ronald Reagan did).

Liebknecht, a crankish professor of mathematics in Germany, declared the star to be a moving planet.

medieval world of Freud, with its crankish quest for sexual symbols

(This theme of culture as an alien transplant has been a continuing leitmotif in much of Clarke's other fiction as well; while his speculative non-fiction has often revealed a regrettable lack of critical discipline to his imagination: he has even suggested, for example, that religion began with hallucinations brought on by malnutrition - a theory of religious origins hardly less crankish than those of von Daniken himself.)