Word: grinding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ahmed Gurey's day, skirmishes were fought with swords and camels. Today heavy tanks grind through the stony wastes, villages are destroyed by enemy shells, livestock are seized by both armies, and townspeople live in terror of attack from the air. The desert is strewn with burned-out tanks, wrecked artillery, empty mortar casings...
...result, the industry has been unable to agree on a common response. In New York, the lowliest longshoreman "earns" a minimum of $16,640 a year yet can often wind up doing no work for weeks at a time, though when he does work the job is a grueling grind. At the top, 354 New York longshoremen make $40,000 to $56,000 a year. Because of upside-down seniority rules, some older longshoremen never have to work at all. The rules provide in some cases that when there is actual work to be done, it must be assigned first...
...work like a dog"--although that's not exactly the phrase Alexandra uses in more candid moments--and then work some more. "There are too many tall blondes out there" who are willing to be "glamorous baby dolls instead of actresses," she says, and unless she is willing to grind away and to use her brains she won't be able to compete in the show business world...
Frederick Forsyth With three phenomenal successes behind him, Novelist Forsyth (The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File, The Dogs of War) at 39 has sworn off writing. "It's a grind, a sweat," he says. A Briton, Forsyth left England in 1974 to escape having to pay an 83% tax on royalties. After a year in Spain, he and his Ulster-born wife Carrie settled in Ireland, where they bought and refurbished Kilgarron, an 18th century manor house surrounded by 25 acres of woodland in County Wicklow. When things are dull, the Forsyths go to Dublin or London...
...everyone plans to grind this weekend. One Currier sophomore said she was planning to go to the movies Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday nights...