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Word: grinders (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have no higher absenteeism rates than usual, "NYSE spokesman James Grinder said yesterday. Employees arriving for work early received overtime pay. Storer said, adding "it was pretty much business as usual" on Wall...

Author: By William E. Mckibben and James L. Tyson, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSONS | Title: Police Arrest 1002 Anti-Nuke Protesters At Wall St. Rally | 10/30/1979 | See Source »

...suspects Greg is linked to the Soviets. Rick, armed with documents stolen from Greg's safe, sets out to prove the connection. He shrewdly manipulates some multinational stock holdings and prepares to take over Greg's company. Greg kidnaps T'sa Li and runs her finger through a meat grinder. T'ang Li rescues his sister. Greg escapes by plane but Rick, piloting his private Messerschmitt, knocks him out of the sky in a dogfight over Manhattan...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Keep the Lid On | 10/19/1979 | See Source »

...gonna pull no punches this time. Let the tide of bloody dead babies commence: let there be impalings, gougings, slashings, stakings, necks broken with an appetizing CRRRUNNCHH in Dolby stereo, John Williams conducting the London Symphony Orchestra, repeating the same goddamned nine-note musical motif like a lobotomized organ grinder, bats tearing faces and crucifixes burning the flesh of latex-scarred vampirellas. "It's a love story," explained Frank Langella...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Staking the Wild Vampire | 7/31/1979 | See Source »

...want to live with a monkey, just as only about 5% of all bund people rely on guide dogs. But she believes a sufficient need exists for less costly live-in assistance. By summer, Willard hopes to obtain foundation funding so she can prepare more of the little organ-grinder monkeys as helpers for the handicapped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Live-In Monkeys | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

That familiar long sandwich crammed with a meal's worth of edibles?what is it called? In New York it is a hero sandwich; in the South, it is known, unheroically, as a poor boy. Pennsylvanians call it a hoagie, New Englanders a grinder and Floridians a Cuban sandwich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hero Wordship | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

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