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Word: scrunch (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

...officially confirmed, that Joseph Stalin early last week heard for the first time some of Shostakovich's music, then translated his personal reactions into the lashing Pravda editorial which called the Red Genius' works "muddle instead of music, fragments of melody dissolving into a general roar, scrunch and scream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Crack! Crack! | 2/24/1936 | See Source »

...every veteran remembers it. Here are the actual sights of battle which evoke its sounds as well-the off-stage hammering of long-snouted guns, the lazy pouf of shrapnel in a blue sky, the invisible stutter of machine guns, the pink of rifle fire, the scrunch of mud, the loud curses, the grunts of the living, the groans of the dying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ten Million Dead | 7/31/1933 | See Source »

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