Word: grinds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clear that Weldy's parents are divorced, his mother holds him on a gold plated leash, and that he has a reputation for jumping any girl he meets. For these reasons Weldy hangs around with a group of suburban Amboy Dukes, whom his mother detests, rather than a young grind called Vernon, whom everybody else detests. Driven to extremes by constant date refusals, Weldy goes out to pick up a girl and ends up with a 30 year-old friend of his mother. What Weldy doesn't know is that there is a delicious young sixteen-year old girl...
...controlled rest and exercise. "You gotta take orders, you know," Rocky says. "You gotta harden up your body so you can take a punch better. That discourages the other guy." (Discouragingly enough for his opponents, Rocky has never been knocked down in a professional match.) But even the training grind is generally fun for him: "I like to better myself, like an artist would...
...pals called Mohammed "Ahbal" (Grind) because he so easily outdistanced them in the little classroom where they learned to chant the Koran. He redeemed himself by excelling at football and by punching his tormentors in the nose. Naguib's father wanted him to study law or become a teacher. But Mohammed had different ideas...
...room in a cheap summer resort hotel. It was heaped high with a weird mixture of pornography, childishness and sentimentality-mild glamour shots like those advertising Chicago burlesque bars; Kodachrome nudes complete with pocket viewers; trick photographs that could be squeezed to make a fan dancer bump and grind There were also pictures of Queen Narriman as a bride. Near the royal stood two stacks of well-thumbed U.S. comics...
...politics. After Congress passed the bill, some 28,000 letters and wires poured into the White House. All but 200 urged the President to sign the bill. He knew that much of the mail for the bill was puffed up by the trade associations who had axes to grind-organizations of druggists, small grocers, liquor and appliance dealers, etc. But in an election year, Harry Truman is not the man to take any chance of losing such a bloc of small businessmen's votes, especially since consumers didn't seem to care or know enough about the bill...