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...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...
...biggest prize the Russians got, said McClellan, was machine tools, a basic requirement for war as well as peacetime production. Ralph Baldenhofer, who was the Business and Defense Services Administration's machine-tool expert in 1955 and is now executive vice president of the Thompson Grinder Co. of Springfield, Ohio, testified that he protested "strongly" against letting the Russians buy such machines, but was repeatedly overruled. Said Toolman Baldenhofer: "It would be much better to give them the planes, even the guided missiles. These things will come back to us once. But the Soviet bloc will be making...
...instrumentalities, force without form, spirit without substance. They became, in a word, gods. Or did they? On paper, the answer to this question would seem to nix the picture's intellectual respectability once and for all, but on the screen it makes King Kong look like an organ grinder's monkey, and will probably have the most skeptical scientist in the audience clutching wildly for his atomic pistol...