Word: grinder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three Harvard students in the Crimson opening-night band, and the Tulla's groups were almost completely from Harvard. These nights at the Coffee Grinder were open sessions where anyone who wanted could play. They used to split half the take, and each man made maybe a dollar a night. "The Crimson offer meant a lot more bread, so we decided to grab...
...maroon cover of Who's Who is no heavy-footed bureaucrat ; he plays his part in the Government with the same soft touch that he uses on the pedals of the Hammond organ in his Johns Hopkins residence-in stocking feet. Far from being a doctrinaire ax grinder, he bends over backward to present objective views to Ike. Indeed, he is most reluctant of all to give advice on the subject he knows best and feels most strongly about: agriculture...
From Bran to Bigness. This empire grew out of a coffee grinder, a gasoline stove and $11.95 worth of wheat and bran. In 1895, near Battle Creek, Mich., a health-foods fan named Charles William Post roasted the wheat and bran, ground them, added sweeteners. Result: Postum. Two years later, Post stirred up the same sort of mixture, produced one of the first cold cereals-Grape Nuts. He formed the Postum Cereal Co., plugged his two products as cure-alls for appendicitis, dyspepsia and other ailments. Some magazines balked at his flamboyant advertising, but Post became the foremost advertiser...
...withdrew its remnants in broken retreat. Five wounds, Heinrich's personal quota, do not necessarily make a war novelist, but his first book, The Cross of Iron (TIME, April 23, 1956), proved that no contemporary novelist was better than he at the grisly business of describing the meat grinder of infantry combat. Crack of Doom, another look at the disintegration of German military power, is also an advanced reader for other writers about war on how to do closeups of men fighting hopelessly toward ends that are totally beyond their comprehension...
...Pension Fund Benefit, had Carnegie Hall patrons collapsing with guffaws. Unable to read music, Conductor Kaye directed some favorite classics surprisingly well, had audience and orchestra falling from their chairs by: 1) kissing two girl harpists and a bull fiddler; 2) parodying common conductorial techniques, i.e., "the coffee grinder" and "the meat chopper"; 3) arguing with his oboist over an A; 4) falling into the cellos during a crescendo. Said Kaye: "It's the greatest feeling of neurotic power in the world...