Word: grind
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...world. Two of its players, Gira Schofield and Ana Marija Zubori, are ranked No. 26 and No. 73, respectively. “We can learn a lot from our opponents,” freshman Agnes Sibilski said. “They come on the court and they just grind and grind. Playing matches always shows you what you need to work on. Smart players will always take advantage of your weaknesses.” At No. 1 doubles, Schofield and Zubori, ranked No. 9 in the country in doubles, defeated the pairing of junior Beier Ko and Sibilski. However...
...many of my friends, on the other hand, are going through “complete your secondary field” syndrome—they already took a few courses in a department and feel like they might as well grind out those last required courses to finish a “Harvard minor.” Or perhaps they always planned to take a secondary field but put off some particularly ghastly requirements until the very end. Either way, their last taste of Harvard academics will be sitting in lectures they would rather not be in, reading things they don?...
While students returned to campus this week to begin the second semester grind, Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Dean Michael D. Smith is still in the balmy climes of California...
...purportedly from Shaker al-Absi, the fugitive leader of the al-Qaeda-inspired Fatah al-Islam group, which waged a bloody three month battle against the Lebanese army last summer. In the 58-minute message, Absi threatened attacks against the Lebanese army. "The mill of war has started to grind ... between the infidels and the believers," he said...
...course, that's not happening. Even if there were the sort of planetwide consensus that Gore calls for - and there's not - the wheels of international governance grind slow. It takes 190-plus countries a long, long time to agree on anything. So it can sometimes seem, in the torpid heat of Bali, that the calls for action will go unheeded, that we'll never get our act together in time the meet the demands of science, which call for a peak on global carbon emissions to be reached within a decade or so, followed by rapid reductions. That...