Word: cranked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more, he is a cooking kook who cares more for his belly than he does for Britain-the sort of waiter baiter who considers himself a gourmet because he speaks menu French and probably reads the food page in Playboy. And of course he is a martini crank ("vodka not gin, shaken not stirred"), a tailor's dummy (Benson, Perry and Whitley, 9 Cork Street, London W.1), and a blood sportsman who would rather hunt quail (Eunice Gay son) than Red birds...
...repair bill). The film is mailed to headquarters in Chicago, where its coded streaks and dots show what channels the set was tuned to, when, and for how long. By correlating this information with program schedules, Nielsen's tabulators and a clacking IBM 1410 computer crank out the ratings that spell life or death for most shows...
...outside pressures, both from parents and indirectly from the political powers in the state (operating through the two Jackson newspapers which make sure that the name of every student who publicly speaks out against state policies is printed in such a manner that the student will get crank letters and his parents will be asked to explain to the home folk), these voices would often constitute a majority...
...Tightened physical restraints to prevent unauthorized use of nuclear weapons. These range from the use of old-fashioned hand-crank generators to set off antiaircraft missiles-just to introduce another man into the launch sequence-to requirements that two officers turn keys within 2-12 seconds of each other before an ICBM can be triggered. Most important is a complex and highly secret new system of remote-control electronic locks that must be opened by responsible officers to fire even tactical Army weapons...
...real thing with the help of the Atlas T-601 Trainer, an $800,000 simulator in which each crew must spend from six to eight hours a day for two weeks. The trainer has all the gear of a real block house, plus the machinery by which instructors can crank out data on 200-odd possible missile malfunctions. It is the trainees' job to run their countdowns and deal with any malfunctions that the ingenious instructors inflict on them...