Word: crunched
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...instructor dangled a sheet of paper between his fingers, asked the student to imagine that he was that paper. The student, concentrating, felt thin, flexible, fragile. Crunch!A-the instructor crumpled the paper into a wad. The student winced. Then both smiled- the student had become "sensitized...
...faces might be unfamiliar. Donny Anderson was at halfback, in place of retired Paul Hornung; Jim Grabowski at fullback, replacing deported Jim Taylor; Zeke Bratkowski at quarterback, filling in for injured Bart Starr. But the effect was the same - a minimum of razzle-dazzle and a maximum of crunch. "When it stops paying off for us," grunted Coach Lombard!, "then we'll make some changes...
...have the problem pretty well licked. All it takes is their in genuity, their spirit-and their private plane. Every weekend, all summer long, the 18-seat Caroline makes the Washington-Hyannis Port run with a full load of assorted Kennedys, Shrivers, their staff members and house guests. The crunch comes when it is time for the flight back to Washington. The size of the original entourage is often swelled by guests who made it up to the Kennedy compound on their own, and there is often a scramble for seats. But such, reason the commuters, is the price...
...ever the champion of the innocent heroine, Laurel and Hardy usually ran afoul of gold-digging coquettes or nagging wives. Typical is the scene in which an amorous Ollie kisses his pinkie and touches it to his wife's lips-whereupon she bites it with a crunch...
...Building Bellicosity. Should a real crunch develop in the Mideast, would the U.S.-in the absence of U.N. action-intervene? In a speech at Newport News, Va., the President dropped an oblique hint that it would feel strongly compelled to do so. The occasion was the launching of the 61,450-ton attack carrier John F. Kennedy, christened by Caroline Kennedy, 9, with her mother Jacqueline standing alongside as matron of honor and a clutch of Kennedys near by. While earnestly praying that "this majestic ship" would sail the world's oceans in peace, Johnson noted that she might...