Word: grind
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Drink Anyone Under the Table." Others offer household hints, such as "How to Cook a Man," and "How to Prospect for Uranium." Educational articles on "Science Conquers Sex" and "The Girl Who Gave Birth to Rabbits," vie with sports features like "French Girls on a Six-Day Grind" (women cyclists...
Headache Factories. By the time blond, good-natured Shearing made the trip to the U.S., his friend Waller was dead and something called bop was mushrooming in 52nd Street basements. Shearing took the best job he could get: a union-scale, six-night-a-week grind in a 52nd Street club. Surrounded by bop addicts, Shearing's piano soon lost its English accent, picked up American "progressive" doubletalk. But conservative Shearing stopped short of the bop-for-bop's-sake which was turning some U.S. jazz joints into headache factories, instead concentrated on what is called "polite...
...fundamental technique of the game is apparently required, because the freshman classes do not include any substantial number of finished football players. This means that it is necessary for each class to produce a group of 20 or 30 men who are determined to undergo for four years the grind of modern football. It also connotes the existence of a sufficient staff of competent coaches...
...shrewdest, best-dressed and most volatile club owner in the business, views hockey with a calculating, professional eye. As long as his Leafs are bouncing enemy players around like India-rubber men and the turnstiles keep clicking, he wastes no time worrying about the long, 70-game grind of the regular season. Smythe specializes in outshining the competition when the blue chips are down-in the post-season Stanley Cup playoffs. For the past three years, Smythe's Maple Leafs have skated off with the coveted cup, although they finished the regular season in first place only once...
...added, that he was "contributing." He toyed with the idea that he might contribute more by becoming a psychiatrist. "I guess I talked up a storm about the thing," he says. "Everybody thought that was going to be the next move." But it would have meant a long grind through pre-med courses and medical school," and Stan was already 37. Last week his latest move, right back to what he started from, was the loudest thing in Los Angeles...