Word: grinded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Clear air turbulence often occurs where two air masses, moving in opposite directions, grind together. Unlike storm fronts, which present a large, moist target for regular storm-tracking radars, this abrupt change of wind direction, or "wind shear," usually goes unremarked by electronics. Last year RCA technicians tracking swift Army missiles on ultrahigh-frequency (above 5,000 megacycles) C-band radar noticed that they were receiving considerable "backscatter"-unexpected, and apparently unexplainable, echoes-during a clear-sky exercise. They wondered if they were on the track...
Football coaches are basically pragmatists, making the most of their best available talent. Given the Elis' two first-rate fullbacks and a mammouth line, it was almost inevitable that the Dynamic System would give way to grind-it-out football. This is just what's happened...
...volunteers themselves spending a summer with an Indian tribe was successful in several ways. As they anticipated there was a chance to get a tan and draw far away from the Cambridge grind. But, as Judy Norman pointed out, "many volunteers also learned from the Indians as well as teaching them...
...even the most conservative coaches are caught up in the enthusiasm. At Columbus, Ohio, where 84,000 watched unbeaten Ohio State and unbeaten Illinois battle to a 20-20 tie, Coach Woody Hayes, the grind-'em-out granddaddy of them all, let Buckeye Quarterback Don Unverfeth throw a season's ration of passes (12). "I'm not throwing the ball just to make people happier," insisted Hayes. "I'm trying to win games. That makes them happier, usually...
Last year the transformation from Flatbush to Hollywood was almost complete, but not quite. The Dodgers still were able to blow the big ones. By this season, though, O'Malley and Walt Alston (a pretty serious grind himself) succeeded. They didn't have quite as good a ball club but they didn't make the crucial mistakes either. Last month it was the Cardinals who folded, and what may be a new era for the National League began...