Word: grinder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a jaunt through Western Europe to Greece, Harl returned to Provincetown, where, through the years, he has gainfully occupied himself as a fisherman and fish-monger, and latterly, as a coffee grinder. One gathers that he was seriously ill for some time, but this didn't prevent him from driving, for variety's sake, a taxi in New York...
Since Tulla's Coffee Grinder opened a few days ago, a good many people have peered curiously at Harl and Tulla through the steamed-up window, and several have come in for a visit. Harl, mean-while, speculates quietly on whether or not his name has been expunged from the College's records...
...Question. To hold the hill meant shielding the Eighth Army's thin defense line. The brass decided that Pork Chop was worth the price. For three days and two nights, a succession of rifle companies of the U.S. 7th Division slogged into the meat-grinder to counter waves of Chinese reinforcements. Battling for Pork Chop's shattered trenches and bunkers, some 900 Americans and South Koreans were killed or wounded, along with 3,000 Chinese. In 48 hours some 85,000 U.S. artillery rounds, plus uncounted enemy shells, blasted Pork Chop's eroded slopes -a display...
...total amount would have supported only 167 scholarships a year. N.M.S. President John Marshall Stalnaker, former dean of students at Stanford, started a campaign to get corporations to participate. Eventually he had 23 companies lined up, ranging from Sears, Roebuck, which finances 100 scholarships, to the Bryant Chucking Grinder Co. (machine tools) with...
Good Intentions. In Manchester, England, haled into court for drunkenness after he was found slumped over his barrel organ in front of a bar, Organ Grinder Stephen Treverton explained to the judge: "It wasn't my fault; they kept giving me beer instead of money...