Word: grinding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Bergerac leave ITT to head a much smaller, though still giant, company? One reason may have been the grind of ITT. Geneen drove his executives at a frenzied pace; in Brussels, Bergerac worked about 80 hours a week. Geneen also conducted marathon monthly meetings that sometimes lasted for four days, at which subordinates were expected to spout reams of figures on cue and might be publicly humiliated by the boss if they could not do it. Associates remember Bergerac as always smiling and calm in this pressure cooker, but they cannot imagine that he enjoyed...
...courts were extremely hot," Fishwick noted following the win, "which prevented any reliance on drop shots. You just kind of grind out points rather than finesse the ball...
...thrown a spectacular pass from his own 1-yd. line for a touchdown. Last week it became evident that the quick score only got the Carter Comets back into a game that had been turning into a rout. To win, Carter must now call signals effectively for a long, grind-it-out-on-the-ground drive against the awesome defense of the Inflation Bears...
...funny thing happened to the Crimson defense on the way to their own Crimson defense on the way to their own endzone, backwards. It held. No longer did it give Penn the big gainer and good field position, which it needed for its grind-it-out Wishbone offense...
...mirrors when one would do? Because it is far easier to cast, grind and mount several small mirrors than one huge one. At $8 million, MMT's cost was a fourth of a comparable conventional telescope's price...