Word: grind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Grind & Sass. In the worst of the labor pinch, the President had to cut down on his afternoon reducing exercises and grind through long, wearing conferences. Cheerful George Allen took to his bed, and the President lost four valued Administration lieutenants.† The C.I.O.'s young, yeasty United Packinghouse Workers sassed him (see below...
...Y.F.C. rallies every week and he decided to get in on the selling end. I've never gotten a dime from him and we've never met. . . . We don't want anything to do with [Gerald L. K. Smith] or anyone with a political ax to grind. Y.F.C. is a 100% religious movement...
...dangers facing American higher education, using the University as an example: "Harvard, for all its history, is endangered as are other universities by a European political revolution which attempts to substitute propaganda for science and mob emotion for disciplined thought: a revolution which would, if it could, grind Harvard with Yale and Princeton and Chicago and Pennsylvania and Stanford and the rest into the rubbish which was once the University of Prague and the University of Heidelberg and the University of Bonn...
...patriotic motive for showing documentaries in theaters. The nontheatrical market-some 35,000 projectors in schools, parish houses, union halls, etc.-is still uncertain. Commercial producers hesitate to risk much in a risky medium. Documentary films run the danger of being controlled by sponsors with an ax to grind and little concern for what interests people. (Likeliest sponsors: the Government, private industry, unions, educational institutions.) Too few documentaries have straight theatrical vitality; and too few of those which do have it are exhibited widely enough to develop a reliable mass audience. Peace has left high & dry a greatly expanded...
...problem of socially harnessing nuclear energy is not different in kind from that presented by each technological advance in turn since the day when man first bound stone to stick to help him hew wood and grind corn and then realized it could also serve to bash his neighbor's brains...