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Word: scrunched (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...touch on the starter, the motor roared, then settled into a gentle rumble. The odor of warm oil, warm metal filled the crowded tank; then the steady, rhythmic, lulling scrunch of the gears. Behind the motorized infantry, the motorcyclists, the trim anti-tank guns, the 68th moved into line, went past The Old Man at 20 m.p.h. Sergeant Pullen drove like a virtuoso, keeping his tank dressed with the four others on his left, watching the field for holes or stumps which would give him and his men a bashing blow against the steel walls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY: Company D and The Old Man | 2/24/1941 | See Source »

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