Word: cranked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...everything aboard the ship is archaic: on windless days, the steel-hulled Eagle, built in 1936, vibrates with the hum of her 728-h.p. diesel engine. Power winches, not able-bodied seamen, crank the windlass to hoist anchor. In the communications shack, the latest electronic gear helps plot the ship's position. On the foremast, a slowly rotating radar scanner keeps an electronic...
...himself through the hatch (the oaken vessel is only 7½ feet high), Bushnell seated himself on a horizontal beam, seized the tiller with one arm, let in water through a valve at his feet and slowly sank beneath the surface. He then maneuvered the ship forward by turning a crank that spins a two-bladed propeller (the propeller can also be turned backward). After about 20 minutes under water, Bushnell began to run out of air, but he was determined to continue as long as possible. For another 25 minutes, he cranked the Turtle through the dark waters, steering...
...revenge. Ernest Hemingway scored in The Sun Also Rises (Harold Loeb, the now-forgotten model for Robert Cohen, was satisfactorily furious, and one of the minor real-life woman characters took to bed for a week). Aldous Huxley did a number on D.H. Lawrence as the brilliantly insufferable crank, Mark Rampion, in Point Counter Point. Political debts have been paid too. One of the first romans à clef, Madeleine de Scudéry's Artamène; ou Le Grand Cyrus (1649), encoded in fiction the court of Louis XIV. H.G. Wells savaged Winston Churchill under the cover...
...safe to assume that ABC will now crank up an enormous publicity barrage before Walters goes...
...only thing really wrong with G & S's Yeomen of the Guard is that it will be so hard to get tickets for it. Usher your way in if you have to. G & S, like Jack Point, are ready to "jest you, jibe you, crank you, wrack you and riddle you," and the tremendous finesse with which they manage the whole operation will leave you as exhilarated as poor Jack Point...