Word: grinded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...amateurs, the coaches chose 80 top skaters. Vairo was looking for players fast enough to cover the wider Olympic rinks and adaptable to what he calls "sophisticated pond hockey"-the patient game of weaving and passing that wins Olympic medals, as opposed to the dump-and-chase, bump-and-grind National Hockey League variety...
...such drudgery ("like researching U.S. postal regulations ... or comparing the Delaware nonprofit corporation law with that of the other states"), there is only a slim chance of becoming a partner. To beat the odds, one need only be "the hardest-working, least-likely-to-screw-up, most anal, puritanical grind since Cotton Mather...
...Californian's skills were not especially evident in the first quarter, as both teams tried unsuccessful to grind out yardage on the ground...
Stoebner anticipates a tough game in which the squads will grind out the yardage. "Both teams have some really good football players," he said...
...James' eyes-are little more than the sum of their mannerisms. Their father (Dennis Hopper) is a philosophizing sot who comes and goes with the whim. Rusty-James' girlfriend (Diane Lane) is a mere receptacle for his careless abuse; his best friend (Vincent Spano) is a cowardly grind seduced by Rusty-James' danger. None of these dead souls ever enters the land of living drama, where obsession and ambiguity intersect and a poor soul in the dark can look up at a figure on the screen and say, "Hey, that...