Word: grinded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bottomless nest of Chinese boxes. School buses headed toward the season's last mile; power mowers and outboard motors pulsed the season's first promise. Fragrance of honeysuckle and roses overlay the smell of charcoal and seared beef. The thud of baseball against mitt, the abrasive grind of roller skate against concrete, the jarring harmony of the Good Humor bell tolled the day; the clink of ice, the distant laugh, the surge of hi-fi through the open window came with the night...
...Complaining that the pros play too rough, Philadelphia's Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain blurted out that he was retiring from the N.B.A. at the tender age of 23. Plainly exhausted by the season's grind, Wilt was also disheartened by his team's loss in the Eastern Division playoffs to the champion Boston Celtics. Once rested, Chamberlain will likely decide to console himself with a $100,000 salary offered by Philadelphia. Scoffed Boston's famed Bob Cousy: "Standing 6 ft. i in., it is difficult for me to feel sorry for a man 7 ft. tall...
...about leprosy were getting no results. Dr. Donohugh decided to throw his Navy training to the winds. Instead of proceeding only through channels, he labeled his charges "for wider dissemination" and slipped a copy to a newsman. What happened after that would have been grist for Somerset Maugham to grind out a sequel to Rain...
...straight-A student at St. James High School, Jerry is no one-sided grind. A strapping, 6-ft. 175-pounder, he is captain of the track and wrestling teams, a star football halfback, and he dabbles in dramatics on the side. Jerry's aim is a doctorate in physics, and a teaching job in a college where he can do research. He is well on the way, having completed eight college semester hours through TV's dawn-breaking Continental Classroom (his grade: A), and he is now finishing another TV course for four more hours of college credit...
Writing the sanitized speeches has become a profitable business in itself. In Manhattan alone, a dozen ghostwriting agencies grind out hundreds of orations a year, collect up to $1,000 a copy. In Cleveland, the National Reference Library publishes booklets of canned speeches (price $4 to $20), tailors individual ones at higher prices, claims 100,000 contented customers. For businessmen who want to be safe and save money at the same time, some trade associations offer speech kits to all (favorite theme for 1960: Businessmen Must Break into Politics). Companies such as Esso Standard Oil and Bemis Bros. Bag have...