Word: grind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Returning from a seven-day furlough between terms, the unit of ASTP trainees will begin the long grind of classes this week. The ASTP unit finds itself reduced in number by the loss of the company of 17-year-old army reservists. Transferred out, most of the reservists will soon find themselves going through the paces of basic training...
...told a reporter: "I am not afraid to die." Then he was rolled back to confinement. It was the first such sentence voted by a court-martial on an officer in World War II. The wheels of review that will finally take his case to the President began to grind...
...Governor, whose own slate won the Republican primary by 5-to-1 majorities, had no ax to grind. The facts were enough. In industrial New Jersey, where even the busiest war worker could find some time to vote during the 13-hour poll day, they straggled into the polls at the rate of six an hour. Nowhere except in Frank Hague's well-regimented Hudson County did the vote exceed 15% of the registration, either Democratic or Republican...
Britons who fought abroad had returned home, some whole, some wounded, to bombed-out families living in shabby, cramped houses, to wives worn out by long hours in factory jobs. Britons who stayed home were fatigued by the war grind, more than ready to question the national leadership on the home front (including the Labor Party leaders in the Churchill coalition...
West Virginia Congressmen might well tremble at their plans. They intend, for instance, to broadcast not only how the West Virginia delegation splits on controversial bills, but also an intimate, behind-the-scenes analysis of the reasons involved. Says Chernoff: "We have absolutely no ax to grind. We only want to ... review the activities of prominent West Virginians in national service...