Word: grinder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...town of Balaklava, where the Light Brigade's 600 rode against the Russian batteries. Last week many times 600 Nazis died near Balaklava, but the Russians called their defensive maze of gunpits and tank traps nothing so poetic as "the valley of death." They called it "the meat grinder." Jaws of the grinder were two stony heights, Fediukhiny to the south and Mekenzevy to the east. Guns emplaced on these slopes commanded all the land approaches to Sevastopol. Below them, and between them and the city, was an unbroken mass of emplacements, trenches and shelters dug into the soft...
...Only the cold communiqués from Berlin, the warmer rhapsodies to valor from Moscow, indicated a slow Nazi ad vance. This week, on the eve of Hitler's second year in Russia, the question at Sevastopol was how much Nazi meat it would take to choke the grinder...
...spirit-without-mind. Carl's mental drive stretches him flat on the altar he has built before a hypnotic social theorist. Ellie is impelled to sacrifice herself to the "resurrection" of an aging, rich sophisticate. The earlier phases of these relationships are ground out with a skillful, meat-grinder tenacity worthy of tougher meat...
...each to its proper terminal. In Dallas a bridge champion's wife assembles hydraulic devices which raise & lower landing gear. All her salary goes to war bonds. In Flint, Mich., a Polish girl carefully fastens the bolt of a .50-caliber machine gun in a grinder, adjusts a machine which smoothes its face. In a noisy Detroit cellar-school a mother of three works with a hand riveter -inserting rivets, inspecting them, and drilling them out if imperfect. And thousands of girls all over the U.S. are making small parts on machines, inspecting, filling shells, putting fabric...
...drill-press operator and tool grinder was a janitor...