Word: cranked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bombers. Curtiss got around $57,000,000 for 1,500 new pursuits. Bell $18,000,000 for 200 Airacobras. To the three engine builders went some $52,000,000, most ($34,000,000) to Allison, already busy with expansion of its Indianapolis plant and making some parts (e. g., crank and camshafts) in G. M.'s Cadillac factory. Among plants in line for next orders: Martin, Lockheed (reported expecting $125,000,000 for pursuits and bombers), possibly Grumman and Consolidated, which makes flying boats and bombers. Also in line was many another plant, if not for its own product...
...keeps tabs on everything and everyone. Last week he conferred with Count Dino Grandi on the codification of labor laws; talked with Hungarian Premier Count Teleki; witnessed experiments with thermite incendiary bombs and defenses against them; rewarded aviators and received journalists who served in the Spanish war; turned the crank of an invention designed to extract iron ore from black sand along the coast near Rome; conferred with Crown Prince Umberto about that half of the Army which the Prince commands...
...infringements on their sacred privileges are probably deeply resented nevertheless. Before the World War, Josephus Daniels, our Secretary of the Navy then, "vigorously democratized" the naval service. Because of this he was never popular with the Annapolis crowd, who considered him a small-time busy demagogue-and political crank. A man promoted from the ranks was stigmatized as a "mustang." Whenever naval officers gathered in a French cafe during the War, a popular song...
...sunny soul like Spinoza, an Olympian spirit like Goethe. They can complain, and do, that psychiatrists have never made clear the difference, if any, between scientific and artistic talent. Nor have the doctors explained whether a neurotic is: 1) a long-fingered person of "artistic temperament"; 2) a crank who looks under the bed every night or constantly washes his hands; or 3) a robust grappler with convention...