Word: cranked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Further, "by the clever use of relay circuits," Dr. Bush thinks ideas can be arranged automatically in logical order: "Put a set of premises into such a device and turn the crank, and it will readily pass out conclusion after conclusion, all in accordance with logical...
...barricades to pat Communist candidate R. Palme Dutt on the back, declare that "practical British Communism saved us in the war in the west." Sighed Labor leader Herbert Morrison: "The election is in danger of degenerating into a comic opera." Agricultural Note. There was the traditional crop of crank candidates. Wackiest of all seemed to be Churchill's eleventh-hour opponent in Woodford, Essex, doughty Alexander Hancock, 47, a farmer...
...Mimeographed?" asked the political scientist. "Is that one of those things with a crank? I'm afraid we haven...
...four: stung twice by swarms of bees, kicked by a horse, struck by lightning, punctured in the stomach by falling on a stick while running away from a bull, treed by another bull, gouged in three fingers by a saw, hit under the eye by a cement mixer crank...
...enemy was not attempting a Blitzkrieg. Rather his strangling assault was a slow, ponderous, Montgomeryesque offensive which wound up laboriously, smashed ahead for carefully calculated distances with irresistible force, then paused to crank up again for the next lunge...