Word: cruncher
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...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...
From the tombs of the great are gone the isolation of yesterday. The gentlemen of science have now usurped the avocation of Jerry Cruncher and his friends. Better it is for a man to die unknown, unpraised, than to risk perpetuity in a museum of cadavers. Modern research, ill content with probing the affairs of life, probes death. So this boy who once ruled Egypt must stand inspection before a maudlin world, while from far and near come novelty seekers aspiring to gaze for a moment at the death masque of the Pharaoh. Shavian and eternal, the child king suffers...