Word: grindingly
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Among the 137 bills that cluttered the President's desk at the height of the congressional adjournment crush last week was H.R. 9087 for the relief of one H. Dale Madison. It was one of the innumerable private relief bills which Congressmen grind out for their constituents like links from a sausage machine...
Foreign-make cars dominated the field of 26 that lined up for the start of the 99-mile grind. French Bugattis and Italian Ferraris, British Allards, Jaguars and Healeys roared over the tortuous 6.6-mile course. Here & there, for the people who were attuned to the pitch, could be heard the deep-throated rumble of a souped-up 200-h.p. Cadillac engine under some of the strapped-down hoods...
...went the Atlanta Journal's Reporter John Keasler; he was out to test the hoarding instinct of housewives. In his bag he had seven pepper grinders and at each door he solemnly told housewives that "ground black pepper will be scarce" and they better buy a grinder and grind their own. In six hours, Reporter Keasler sold his grinders and this week in the Journal he gleefully told how housewives 1) will buy anything if they think it's a bargain, and 2) pay no attention to what salesmen...
...movies, radio dramas have always depended on music to get listeners from one mood or scene into another, fast. In the trade, such six-or eight-bar snatches of music are called cues or "bridges." Some radio stations use canned movie-type music; others employ would-be Wagners to grind out poor-man's leitmotives according to script...
...swim "as fast as I can." Her father, a retired San Diego policeman, and Trainer Henry Gunter agreed. They had watched her win the 2½-mile race at La Jolla, Calif, ten times in 18 years; they thought she had the power and stamina for the Channel grind...