Word: crunch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spring is, besides, the time for the voice of the turtle, the click of the horsehide, the plosh of oars, and the pleasant crunch of spikes on cinders...
When we heard the familiar crunch last Tuesday, we girded up our photographers and walked down to the corner rather bored. But this was no ordinary, run-of-the-month crash; the laws of chance, always just, had finally entoiled a police car in the policeman's trap. There it was, hanging from a tow truck, with the price of half a dozen stop signs stamped on its fender and grille. Otherwise the scene was the same as all the others...
...some big cities, vast traffic jams never really got untangled from dawn to midnight; the bray of horns, the stink of exhaust fumes, and the crunch of crumpling metal eddied up from them as insistently as the vaporous roar of Niagara. Psychiatrists, peering into these lurching, honking, metallic herds, discovered all sorts of aberrations in the clutch-happy humans behind the steering wheels...
...club-wielders. Behind them, in the classic tactic of trained street fighters, were ranks of stone-throwers. Messengers scurried between the lines to transmit orders from leaders, and on the sidelines girls stood by to help the wounded to safety. Infiltrators sneaked behind the police and, with the sickening crunch of brick against skull-bones, felled cop after...
...tight-lipped stories that anticipated Hemingway and all the little Hemingways. Out West, Frank Norris and Jack London spoke up bluntly. Norris, remarks Critic Brooks, "had Zola's nose for the odor cf stale bedding and of creosote"; London wrote rowdy stories in which "one heard the perpetual crunch-crunch of bones...