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Word: crunch (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Peking had no Red Square, like Moscow's. So the Reds made one. In Gate-of-Heavenly-Peace Square, at the gates to the Forbidden City of the Manchus, where Mao now dwells in palatial simplicity, the army had laid a new roadway strong enough to sustain the crunch of parading Red tanks. Red bunting had been distributed to citizens by the bolt-even the coolies' rickshaws were red-draped. A band of 700 musicians played the new song, The East Is Red, the Sun Is Rising; schoolchildren released thousands of peace doves, which napped out of sight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Oriental Red Square | 10/15/1951 | See Source »

First-night fans saw a brilliant revolvable set of a little Paris street corner and its bistro. In his scenario, Petit turned the "beautiful woman" of his childhood into a jewel thief who steals diamonds "not to wear or sell, but to eat, like children crunch candy." The first the audience saw of her was a slim white arm and shoulder, snaking out through a hole in the wall to lift the wallets of passersby. When Ballerina Renée Jeanmaire finally turned up in full view (in sexy black tights) to sing & dance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Cruncher | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

...Europe against the present eight-to-one armed superiority of Soviet Europe. The real defense, rearmament, inched slowly ahead. For six weeks, the deputies of the twelve-nation North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) had been making plans for joint rearmament with a gap wide enough for a tank to crunch through: they had avoided discussing Germany, though effective European defense without Germany was impossible. When the NATO Foreign Ministers met in London last May, they had been afraid to tackle the vexed subject of rearming Germany. Korea had since changed the situation-but not the instructions already issued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Rainbow-Chasing | 9/18/1950 | See Source »

...mile short of the runway's edge the big transport was dragging in over the treetops. There was a rending crunch as the left wing struck a 67-ft. steel flagpole in Fort Snelling National Cemetery. Jones blurted into his radio microphone that he was in trouble. The control tower ordered him to head for the field. Back came the pilot's last words: "I can't! I can't! I'm falling! I'm going down!" The left wing ripped away and spun off into the darkness. Helplessly the crippled plane tumbled toward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTER: I'm Going Down! | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

...Franz Leipelt, officer on watch, and a British pilot were on the bridge. At the helm, Swedish Able Seaman Herbert Tonning guided his ship at a cautious 10 knots through a calm, moonless night. From the bridge came a shouted order. Tonning spun the wheel, hard. He heard the crunch of steel on steel. Captain Karl Hammerberg, hunched over a pot of tea in the officers' saloon, was thrown headlong on the table. He ran to the bridge. The ship's clock stood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Off Shivering Sand | 1/23/1950 | See Source »

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