Word: grindingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...literature student at Claremont Men's College, where he plays defensive tackle on the campus football team and takes no part in peace demonstrations, Ridenhour insists that he "has no ax to grind" with the Army. But he concedes that he did not get along well in the service. "It's very authoritarian, just not my bag. I'm one of those guys who question orders." He is also handy with a typewriter. He crammed his letter with so many graphic descriptions of the "rather dark and bloody" happenings at My Lai that it could not be ignored...
...participate while not considering the consequences is to be a well-meaning fool manipulated by knaves with an ideological ax to grind...
White working-class students usually have less trouble, but even for them life can be a grind. Marilyn Masiero, 25, who will receive her education degree from New York University in January, has taken several bank loans, worked summers, weekends and Christmas vacations, is now an apprentice teacher in a Harlem public school. "You die of anxiety every year until that scholarship letter comes," she says. "If you go out on a date, you borrow the clothes. You have a pair of shoes and a pair of sandals, and you wear the sandals till November. For Christmas gifts...
...isolate the problem, but it may have narrowed down to three factors. Quarterback Dave Smith was out, and the change in signal-calling may have thrown the timing off in the line and affected the team's offensive unity. Harvard also may have made a mistake in trying to grind out yardage against a proven defense, using two sabpar backs. Third, Harvard's lack of imagination made it easy for the Indians to dope out the Crimson attack...
...whoosh, pop and grind of thousands of fanciful contraptions echoed through Manhattan's cavernous Coliseum. The occasion was "Patexpo '69," a show designed to match up 300 inventors of new products with the men who can market them. As the visitors saw, modern man's ingenuity has lately produced a gun that fires a net to enmesh would-be muggers, skis with wheels for schussing on dry land, a timer that rations children's television viewing, tongs that carry melons without bruising them, and a keyless electronic lock that opens when hidden pressure points are pushed...