Word: grinded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...collapse. Coffee is Colombia's life (it accounts for 70% of all foreign exchange), and a 10% drop in world coffee prices in the past six months contributed to an 18% drop in the country's foreign exchange earnings. The economy-and the country-was about to grind to a halt. Then President Carlos Lleras Restrepo went on nationwide TV and announced that he had averted bankruptcy by arranging for a $200 million stand-by credit with the International Monetary Fund, AID and the World Bank...
...Harvard has an impressive backcourt, but there is no one up front to be a leader. When a team falls behind in a game, inexperienced players might tend to start shooting more, and lose control of the tempo of the game. An upperclassman who has been through the Ivy grind would certainly help...
...Johnson, the 20-hour-a-day grind of sightseeing and ceremony, of conferences with Presidentstand Premiers, audiences with a semidivine king (Thailand's Bhumibol Adulyadej) and a politician-prince (Malaysia's Tunku Abdul Rahman) had been "the hardest work of my life." And other self-set labors awaited him back home. After one day's rest in the capital, the President was scheduled to hit the road again for a whirlwind windup to the 1966 election campaign...
...trees." At Northwestern, Ara produced Flanker Paul Flatley (now with the Minnesota Vikings) and Quarterback Tommy Myers (Pittsburgh Steelers); at Notre Dame in 1964, it was Quarterback Huarte and End Jack Snow (Los Angeles Rams). After Huarte and Snow graduated in 1965, Parseghian had to settle for grind-it-out ground attack; although the Irish lost only two games, he still shivers at the memory. "It was not," says...
Chicken Feed. In fact, though few would admit it, most Congressmen welcomed the return to Washington for at least a few days a week. Not only could they thus find a respite from the grind of campaigning, but could also explain to constituents-at every opportunity-that urgent affairs of state demanded their presence in the Capital...