Word: grind
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...into the flow of the game, and you get four or five penalties called on you. It’s tough to get back in the rhythm, because usually your good players are killing penalties, and they get tired, and it’s a tough grind...
That doesn't mean China's robust economic engine will grind to a halt. The mainland meets more than two-thirds of its energy needs with coal and boasts the world's largest reserves. But to keep its economy racing ahead--and to ease some of the pollution that comes from burning coal--China's leaders have been forced to seek ever greater supplies of petroleum from overseas. More than half of China's oil imports currently come from the volatile Middle East, making oil security a growing concern in Beijing. China plans to build a strategic oil reserve...
Ashcroft will soon step out the door. But in the office it’s the usual day-to-day grind: planning meetings for the ministers of justice from seven other countries, writing a report on intellectual property covering everything from downloaded tunes to designer purses. She sometimes works late into the night and on weekends, but she doesn’t resent it, she says. “The honeymoon period lasted long...
Whether it was injuries, the grind of almost nonstop lifting in the mornings during the winter and spring, or simply exhaustion, many a player on coach Tim Murphy’s squad finds that out at some point during his Harvard career. By my count, about half of the players in my class —the class of 2006—have now quit the football team. And while many of them and players in other classes joke about regrets, most of them still really love and follow the Crimson football team...
...just the idiots," he mused during the postseason, referring to the moniker that the team had adopted. This in a city with 100 colleges. Damon was echoing his teammates' mantra: they were playing a kid's game, they were having fun, but they were also going to "grind you out." "We try to eliminate the thinking and let our natural abilities take over. So I think that's why the phrase about the idiots kind of took off," Damon explained. "But we don't think. If we use our brains, we're only hurting the team...