Word: grinder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House caucus room. Motion-picture and television cameras stood tripod to tripod, electrical cables matted the floor like jungle vines. Both crowds and cameramen had come with a single purpose: to watch James Caesar Petrillo, the union boss of all U.S. musicians, dropped into the legislative meat grinder and publicly reduced to scrapple...
Editor Carroll Binder (rhymes with grinder) was no disgruntled aspirant, but one of the Pulitzer Prize's preliminary pickers. He was a member of a nominating jury to weed out contenders for the $500 prize for international telegraphic reporting. Disregarding the jury's verdict (which recommended a prize to the New York Herald Tribune's Arch Steele), the committee handed the prize to roly-poly Eddy Gilmore, inoffensive Moscow correspondent of the Associated Press (TIME, Aug. 12).* It was the A.P.'s eleventh Pulitzer Prize. And an award to Brooks Atkinson (for a fine series...
Hollywood's major moviemakers finally got shoved through the antitrust grinder-but they came out whole. Last week, eight years after the Department of Justice filed suit, a special Manhattan Federal Court denied a Government demand that the big producers be divested of their theater holdings* in order to end monopolistic practices in the distribution of films...
...better off than before. The major companies, owning the best theaters and having the biggest bank accounts, could always outbid them for films. The chances were that the Antitrust Division, still holding out for divestiture, would appeal to the Supreme Court and put the case back in the grinder...
Some critics point to this penalty score as proof that Army plays dirty football. Those who have been through the grinder have made no such charge. Army's coach, Colonel Earl ("Red") Blaik, who believes there are more suitable places for pussyfooting than a gridiron, denies the charge and offers movies of their games as evidence that his Cadets keep within the slam-bang limits of big-time football...