Word: cranked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other hand, if a crank or an ignoramus took the Urbino paintings, they may have been jettisoned or destroyed by now, in panic. Siviero is inclined to discount the concrete-bunker theory-the mad millionaire gloating over stolen masterpieces in solitude. The collector, he believes, "wants to be able to enjoy the possession and to show it off." That leaves the extortion hypothesis: the work of art taken either to get a ransom or some political favor. In fact, however, the few ransom demands that have been made have turned out to be phony. Even if they were real, they...
...conscientious and energetic man, Butterfield is respected by his peers on the NTSB and by the pilots themselves for his attempts to crank some new life into the sluggish and unwieldly bureaucracy he inherited. "If we can get tough, tough as hell," he says, "and not favor any segment of the aviation community, we are going to gain the respect we deserve." On that point, Butterfield clearly has the firm support of a constituency of nearly half a million Americans -the number that fasten their seat belts daily in U.S. airliners...
Meals and Medicare. Also genuinely devoted to their pets are such people as Glen Crank, a blue-collar worker in Hammond, Ind., whose dependents include a poodle, a pointer, a Saint Bernard (caskless), a cat, a ferret and a cougar named Rajah; to defray Rajah's $1,000 acquisition costs, say the Cranks, they had to "eat beans for months." (They have since been forced by neighborhood pressure to give Rajah to a local zoo.) The potentates of petdom may well be the 65 dogs whose meals and Medicare are assured by the will of Quaker State Oil Heiress...
...addressed his insurance circulars to businesswomen as well as men; but his wife Harmony evidently found it necessary to play a quietly supportive role, and Ives incessantly denounced the "femaled-male crooners" who were "emasculating America for money!" And on other political issues--Ives became something of a crank late in his life, sending plans for new governmental systems, but even before he developed these plans--Ives displayed a similar ambivalence of feeling. "Vote for Names! Names! Names!" he exclaimed during the 1912 election. "Three nice men Teddy, Woodrow & Bill $ame $ame $ame." But that didn't stop him from...
...trouble with behavioral profiles. Some news commentators feel the studies were ordered as part of a White House "smear" campaign against Ellsberg. In fact, the first profile, which turned out to be reasonably favorable, was judged unsatisfactory by the White House, and the CIA was sent back to crank out another...