Word: crunchings
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Until the bones in the body crunch with...
...meticulous about keeping familiar things in familiar places: cigarettes, cough drops, bric-a-brac, Kleenex, sharpened pencils. When Porter travels, even his own ashtrays go with him, and he likes them kept so neat that at parties a servant cleans them up almost before a guest can crunch a cigarette out. When Porter went to Philadelphia for Kate's 3½-week tryout, he took along five paintings, including a large Grandma Moses snowscape, to make his hotel suite homelike...
...fine loess dust on the rutted dirt road from Suchow to the front, 25 miles to the east, was churned by our jeep into a long brown cloud which hung in the still air. We could hear the distant thump of artillery and the crunch of aerial bombs. Ahead and in some hills to the south, puffs of white billowed where shells and bombs found targets. In a village which had been retaken from the Communists the day before, an old peasant woman squatted at a roadside pond unconcernedly whacking at her laundry with a wooden paddle. Behind...
...continuously overhead, some with bombs which dropped with a heavy concussion, some with supplies to be parachuted to encircled General Huang. Artillery, which was dug in behind the village, kept up an intermittent fire-first came the muzzle blast, then the scream of the shell overhead, then a distant crunch as the shell exploded...
...closing days, the smooth-running 80th Congress clanked and rattled like a leaky donkey engine. Amid the wheeze and hiss of escaping oratory and the crunch of jammed legislative gears, responsible Republican leaders set themselves a double objective. They wanted to adjourn in time for the G.O.P. convention, but they did not want to see the Soth's record marred by last-minute haste...