Word: grind
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...festive and hungry for thrills, began gathering outside Indianapolis Speedway at dawn. By race time, some 150,000 had crammed their way into the stands and infield to watch 33 underslung, overpowered little cars roar around the 2½-mile brick and asphalt track in the annual 500-mile grind...
Slowly the brakes of the U.S. Government's standard model deflationary program (for export only) began to grind and squeal. By April, skyrocketing retail prices began to descend. Currency in circulation dropped from a 75 billion won high in January to a May 19 figure of 57.7 billion. Government departments and government-run factories trimmed down to economy size to fit the new budget...
...somehow, in all of "Ivan's" ardor and devotion, there seemed to be a fatal flaw. He liked to run the Ministry of Education in his own way and he stubbornly resisted the demands of party politicos with axes of their own to grind. From the standpoint of the Casa Rosada, Oscar Ivanissevich was beginning to seem a little too independent...
...flash decision. Already the author of a lively biography of William Tecumseh Sherman (1932), Lewis had been collecting research on Grant for a dozen years. At Libertyville, freed from the grind of daily journalism, 54-year-old Lloyd Lewis began to burrow into his mound of notes...
Smith admitted last night that the route was quite a grind--26 miles, 385 yards worth--and complained that the Wellesley girls didn't hand him the usual refreshments as he passed their college; "they just yelled." He insisted that Engstrom had passed him at Wellesley and had not been heard from since, and added, "As far as I know, Knauth is still running...