Word: grind
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...After] two weeks of really intense, hard mental labor,” Fish said, “[if] your team can muster 80 percent of [its] mental and physical resources during this time, that’s a victory. [Harvard] is a grind. They all put in their time, and they try to keep their hand in while they’re doing what they came here...
...Yorkers are coddled elitists with more than our fair share of neuroses. Or at least that’s what you’d hear if you asked the average Harvard student. Even after four years here, it still seems like this campus still has an axe to grind with me and my fellow City dwellers...
School is over. Commencement has yet to begin. Events with names like “Champagne Brunch” and “Booze Cruise” creep up. And after four years of succeeding on grit and grind, Harvard’s stately elders learn, for once, how to do nothing useful...
Moving thousands of records from the old paper system to the database required months of grind work. Computer systems had to undergo thousands of dollars worth of updates in order to be compliant with new software. And, most frighteningly for international administrators nationwide, schools had to undertake this overhaul on a very tight schedule...
...wind was brutal,” Klein said. “It had kind of been a grind. I was feeling like I hadn’t gotten a lot out of the round and to make something like that as the final shot of the day was definitely a huge lift...