Word: grinding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fans will see for themselves when the curtain goes up on "Old Faces of 1953-4" at 8:30 tonight. Also present will be the B.U. critics with an axe to grind and the newspaper critics with bated breath and baited pens, looking and hoping for the best...
When President Eisenhower at his press conference (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) remarked that he was ready to take the judgment of the correspondents in his audience as to whether or not his administration had embraced "McCarthyism," the polling wheels began to grind. The New York Times's Washington Bureau Chief James ("Scotty") Reston promptly set his staff to work calling the 179 newsmen who had been at the conference to find out what their opinion...
...East Berlin, Gerhart Eisler, onetime top U.S. Communist who skipped the country in 1949 to return to the workers' paradise in his homeland, was finding life less heavenly than ever. Already forbidden to grind out propaganda under his own byline, Eisler had now been kicked out of his imposing villa. The villa's new tenant: East Germany's Deputy President Heinrich...
...cannot tell a lie, sir,' answered the grind. 'They are the necessary books I have just succeeded in drawing from the library...
...Also: "Grind to a powder the seed of the carpenter plant, the gum resin of the markazi plant, and thyme, then dissolve it in beer and let the man drink...