Word: grinding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tired of the everyday grind? Want to live a life of romance and adventure? We offer you Escape!" With these words, candidates were welcomed into the CRIMSON Newsroom for the opening meeting of the Crime's first competition of the year. Escape was the keynote, Crimeds told of escape from angry deans, the dull academic routine, and even from Harvard itself. Beer cans hissed and the AP ticker tapped out "pockatapockatapockata" while candidates chortled in festive glee...
Behind the lower U.S. price of a can of drip grind or a jar of instant lies a revolutionary new Brazilian coffee policy. For years Brazil operated as though it grew all the coffee in the world, refused to sell for less than its own pegged price, watched its markets and export income dwindle. Last year Brazil pulled out the peg, let prices seek their level, began selling hard. By August, coffee sales were setting records, and by last week the first two major effects could be plainly measured...
Coaches Bill McCurdy and Ed Stowell entered the handicap and hauled themselves over the long grind valiantly if not too rapidly. McCurdy finished 25th on a straight time basis; Stowell was farther back in the field...
There is little doubt that Benjamin's time could have been faster. Unfamiliar with the four-mile grind, he saved himself so well that he covered the last 440 in a blazing 64.0. He ran consecutive two miles of 9:23 and 9:25, an amazing performance from a runner whose best two-mile at the start of the 1959 outdoor season...
...present, a Negro child wishing to go to a white school must exhaust all possible state administrative channels before appealing to the Federal Courts on the grounds of segregation. If his parents are not determined or wealthy enough to undertake the long administrative and judicial grind necessary for a change, he must accept placement on the basis of "intelligence," "health and morals," or "maintenance. . . of established social and psychological relationships with other pupils and with teachers...