Word: cruncher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ambato, a moderate shock several minutes ahead of the cruncher had been warning enough to send people into the streets. Some rushed to church to pray. Then the earth heaved and Ambato's cathedral collapsed, burying in its ruins 70 children and the priest who had been teaching them. Other churches fell in; 70% of the city's houses were made uninhabitable. Bricks and plaster blocked Ambato's streets...
...cruncher came when a group of eight Senators offered an amendment to lop a cool $197 million off the bill. The amendment's chief promoter was Nevada's George W. Malone, a former prize fighter who had made a one-man survey of Europe in an airplane. He had found, he said, that in some cities U.S. relief supplies were being sold on the open market...
...course, did not let beauty sway them. Ottawa's pretty, blue-eyed, 18-year-old Barbara Ann Scott could skate too. Last week at Davos Platz, Switzerland, against 19 competitors from seven nations, she did her graceful spirals and jumps and double loops, topping it off with a cruncher: the one-foot axel and double salchow...
...last week, just as the new dresses were going on sale, CPA dropped a cruncher: most of L85 would stay in effect indefinitely. In fact, said CPA, there had never been any intention of dropping it. CPA also emphasized the penalty for sellers of extra-legal dresses: one year in prison or $10,000 fine, or both. What could retailers, stuck with the unsalable dresses, do? (One New York syndicate alone had $1,000,000 worth on hand...
...Words. What gave the British their solidest satisfaction was a ruling of the Fund governors on the meaning of "fundamental disequilibrium," a gobbledygook economic cruncher imbedded deep in the Bretton Woods charter...