Word: grind
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...numbers. As it turned out, no sweet-talking was required. Official after official went on the record for Golden on the matter. The reasons for the rejections? One Korean student, applying from a top prep school, got pegged at MIT as “yet another textureless math grind.” At Vanderbilt, a former admissions staffer offered that Asians “are very good students, but don’t provide the kind of intellectual environment” that colleges are looking for. THE FIRST “MODEL MINORITY”On January...
...Army Times and Marine Times called for his resignation - even before John McCain declared he had lost confidence in Rumsfeld - the brash Secretary of Defense had lost almost all his allies inside the White House. Just the mention of his name would cause aides to the President to grind their teeth and roll their eyes. He had become a liability to the President, and his advisers knew it and resented it. If the choice had been theirs, Rummy would have been shown the door months, if not years, ago. And that was the White House. Rumsfeld never had allies...
Quality casual encounters, especially in public locations, are a bit difficult to engineer, but remember, if you wanted any old hookup, you could just get drunk and go to a sweaty room party and grind with someone you’ll probably see in Science A the next morning. Not all that appealing...
...long grind,” she says. “It was really tough...
...words escaped my lips as though I were lost in a dream. As we intoned those sacred verses from R. Kelly’s 1993 hit, “Bump n’ Grind,” I dissolved into Beck’s baby-blue eyes. It felt as if, in the middle of the MTV studios, at the heart of New York City, with three cameras and countless PR agents looking on, Beck and I became one. My fingertips were numb with ecstasy...