Word: grind
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...withone difference: he would be paid, not a dollar a year, but nothing. As a Senator, heading his famed war investigating committee, Harry Truman in 1942 had declared forthrightly: "No man can honestly serve two masters . . . The committee is opposed to taking free services from people with axes to grind . . ." Now necessity had changed his mind. He announced that henceforth the Government may employ persons of "outstanding experience and ability, without compensation," allowing them to keep drawing salaries from private sources while working for the Government...
...Better Birth? Another Kalimpong Buddhist keeps busy driving an obstinate goat around a pile of prayer stones, hoping to assure the ungrateful animal a better birth-perhaps even human-in its next incarnation. The daily grind for U.S. Scholar Joseph Rock, who was chased out of China by the Reds and settled in Kalimpong, consists of work on a new system of spelling Tibet's tongue-twisting place names. Austrian Baron Rene Nebesky, who helps Rock, is boning up on Tibetan demonology...
...clawing for his own revolver. The guard bolted instinctively for the street-partly to draw the gunman's fire away from the President's quarters, partly to leave a clear field for the Tommy gunner behind the door. Then hell's own corn popper began to grind in front of Blair-Lee House...
...writer, wartime writer-director of Signal Corps training films. At 32, just out of the Army, he got together a team of bright young moviemakers, wangled financing, started in as an independent producer. Short of money, he slashed costs by rehearsing his actors thoroughly before the cameras began to grind. The B-budget results he turned out -Champion, Home of the Brave, The Men-rated A with both critics and the ticket-buying public, made Hollywood sit up and take goggle-eyed notice...
...Abner and his colleagues, he retires to a big, handsomely furnished apartment on Boston's Beacon Street. One of its back rooms-a bare-walled hideaway fitted up with three drawing boards-is the workroom in which Capp and two longtime assistants, Andy Amato and Walter Johnston, grind out the installments of their never-ending serial...