Word: grind
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...clinging to life in the midst of the rubble. Later, the last, dogged hope abandoned to the harsh realities of the site, it became a salvage job: Pull the wreckage apart, keep your mask on, pray none of the broken steel beams falls on you. This was a daily grind cloaked in mindfulness, punctuated by constant, grim reminders of death and loss, spent sifting through the wreckage in hopes of finding human remains...
...Harvard students need or deserve anything this summer, it is some real rest and relaxation—away from the densely packed schedule of a full-time resume builder. We need to take our minds off the grind of life, if only for a moment, and embrace a long-forgotten idea: spontaneity...
...they signed up, leaving their families with no idea what had happened to them. They were sent to the tiny, deserted island of Shilmi off the coast west of Seoul in 1968. One of the first things the men did upon arrival was to dig up a Chinese grave, grind up the bones and scarf them down mixed with a little water. They apparently believed this would cure venereal diseases and build character. They then nailed the skull and two crossbones to a wooden board marking the camp's entrance. Beneath the bones, they wrote the words, "Our creed...
...steps leading to the summit zig, zag, and turn in spirals, passing meditation cells, shrines and small shops selling everything from tourist trinkets to fragrant thanakha logs?from which Burmese women grind their traditional face powder. Monkeys cavort along the path?cute from a distance but downright terrifying when they bare their teeth and hiss. Be warned: while eating pork or cursing may offend the nats, a bag of cookies in your back pocket is a sure invitation to an attack by monkeys...
...match their music. Wreathed in smoke and dressed in tastefully tattered black, the threesome conjure up a hurricane of sound so dense and vital you would swear they had another guitarist stashed away in the back, hidden behind the smoke machine. Guitarist Peter Hayes and bassist Robert Turner stoically grind out rock the likes of which has been neither seen nor heard for years...