Word: grinded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many a practiced politician, Jack Kennedy's punishing grind seemed absurd : running virtually unopposed, he could, if he wanted to, claim New Hampshire's eleven delegate votes with the merest amenities - a speech or two, a TV appearance, and many thanks. But Kennedy was doing it the hard, handshaking way for two reasons: 1) he hopes to get a bigger primary vote than Estes Kefauver got in 1956 (when 30% of the state's Democrats turned out) and thus convince his party's skeptics of his popular support; 2) his own example was an opportunity...
...oculists; status seeking led them to style themselves ophthalmologists (which few patients can spell or pronounce). The man who made corrective lenses was an optician. An intermediate group developed, called doctors of optometry, who often did the eye measurement (refraction) on which the prescription was based. Opticians can still grind lenses but are forbidden to do the refraction...
...ordinarily result in more harm than good." He feels that "local control has clearly outlived its usefulness," not only because of antiquated taxation and uneven standards, but because it is less democratic than national control. Reason: local control often falls to local bullies and "assorted interests with axes to grind." Not so national control-if it is "in the hands of teachers, where it belongs...
Communist Castles. Rugged as this daily grind is, more and more Muscovites are turning into dachniks. Private frame dwellings (individually owned, but on land leased from the state) arise in numbers almost as great as the grey blocks of new city apartments that grow in melancholy monotony in Moscow's residential districts. Letting or subletting dachas is one of the few flourishing forms of private enterprise left in Russia. Last week the Moscow press charged that a food-store manager had unlawfully bought a twelve-room, seven-porch dacha in a scientists' colony, added two more dachas inside...
...January moves on and hordes of the conscientious descend on Lamont and Radcliffe Libraries, it is worth halting the grind to consider the purpose of examinations. At least 6 courses were prominent in their absence from the exam schedule, and the fact of alternate term papers in these courses sheds some relevant light on the question...