Word: cranked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suspects you're going to need to be persuaded and he sympathizes with your reluctance to get bogged down with them, boring and unprofitable as they are. "If you are scrupulous today," he writes, "people don't think of you as a hero or saint but as a crank or a fool." He sees from the start that he has a lot of convincing...
After 1908 Derain pruned his color to achieve more weighty and old-masterly effects, and was never to regain the same energy. Vlaminck plummeted into coarse self-parody, Dufy tended more and more to crank out pretty little furniture-pictures, and Van Dongen simply fell apart, becoming-in his meaningless virtuosity and appeal to cafe society-an Andy Warhol with red corpuscles. The brief moment of Fauvism was over; naturally, since it was synonymous with youth itself...
...warns Mim Moore. "Somebody-some head guy somewhere's bound to catch on and put the lid on the whole thing," a friend counters. "This is still America." But when Mim's husband John finally protests to the authorities, he is dismissed as a crank...
...with which the second attack on Ford followed the first raised the specter of a contagious spread of the assassin's disease. These attempts were particularly irrational, since they were aimed at one of the nation's least provocative and most amiable Presidents. Indeed, beyond the usual run of crank letters and threatening calls against any President, more serious attempts did seem to be proliferating...
...most obvious impact of the changes is that more candidates have announced earlier than ever before so as to crank up the fund drives necessary to qualify for the matching money...