cracked

“I don’t really think you can do anything to prepare for it when you’re out here,” cracked Iamaleava, alluding to warm temperatures and calm winds.

He cracked a joke to open: “Who had a weirder 48 hours — me or the CEO of Tylenol?”

Next to Lee’s cracked beams of sunshine, Shepherd’s builder is disturbingly blank, though not impossible to read.

"Maybe we need to use a different term, but the fact is this nut does need to be cracked, because we cannot allow inequality to continue widening," he added.

As some heated rocks in the fire and others cracked and used stones to grind acorns into flour, the smell of burning oak logs permeated the air.