Word: cranked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nicaragua-recreate the hoteha and ballyhoo of the years just preceding the depression. Especially typical is the portrayal of the high-school football hero, whose raccoon coat, honor-badge of the period, appears as standard equipment whenever the young buck comes in the screen, be it to hootchi-koo, crank up his roadster, or neck on a hot June night...
...Luis Obispo, Calif., Professor James Merson of California State Polytechnic showed a class how to crank a tractor so as not to break an arm, broke...
...Lyons, fresh out of the Marines, is back in the line-up at 45. The first Sunday of the season, old Ted Lyons expects to crank up his ancient arm and fire his pet pitch at the St. Louis Browns. For him, and for many another big leaguer, the last three years didn't happen...
...about time that you put a stop to the . . . odoriferous flatulence of the monomaniacal person who does your purported music criticism? It does not seem just and fair to permit a crank to vent this malignity time after time, especially concerning a subject which does not allow levity. Sarcasm, or the caprice of an ignorant and petulant fool. If your paper is governed by principles of decency and good writing, certainly there is no room for the sort of thing that we find in the most recent Music...
...role on which Moliere leaves his audience as judge. Lubchansky's interpretation is most notable for its absence, and although he competently portrays Alceste's disillusionment and dark anger, he plays the role straight, leaving his listeners to decide whether he is a justifiably pessimistic cynic or a ridiculous crank...