Word: grind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Councillor-at-large is not a full-time job, and thus his duties on the Waltham Council will wreak no havoc with Hansberry's tough Law School grind, for his only legislative task will consist of meetings every Monday evening...
...always a food-surplus area, which the three Western zones were not. But now Russian-zone Germans are as hungry as those in the West. Near Bitterfeld, townfolk were using their Sunday off to glean the few stray wheat stalks left in the stubble of a wheatfield. They grind the grain by hand and make a sort of bread. Some, unable to wait, were eagerly breaking the stalk heads open and eating as they gleaned. It left a grayish paste of kernel shell around their lips...
...underling as a winner's reward, which incidentally never was consummated, the Wellesley girls this year offer only "doughnuts or other suitable refreshments," with entertainment for the remainder of the day including hiking, boating on Lake Waban, and cycling for those who haven't had enough along the Turnpike grind...
Running as if they had just been let out of the antelope pens near the course, seven Engineers negotiated the hilly, 4 1/4 mile grind before John Cogan, the first Harvard man, hit the finish line. A Holy Cross runner was sandwiched in between the sixth and seventh Tech finishers...
Since a complete list of those men eligible for make-up exams reaches the Dean's Office by July, an acceptable plan should not grind to a standstill in the monster gears of University Hall. Technical difficulties such as allotting classrooms, giving students adequate time for study, and obtaining examinations from instructors are admittedly surmountable. Once the pressing need and desire for a more suitable system becomes evident, a revised examination schedule seems easily attainable. The life of an anachronism does not necessarily begin at forty...