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Word: grinding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Down the Bunghole? The grind of pleasure never let up for the next two days. In Mettenheim for the presentation of the golden barrel, the newsmen blearily watched a maypole dance, listened to a glockenspiel band, and sipped beer. When the local burghers clapped at a speech by the U.S. consul general, one Pabst man said incredulously: "For God's sake, these people are taking us seriously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Barrel of Fun | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

...will flip the pages until they come to the generally tolerable House features. The article on Dudley is especially well written, while the Dunster House feature is too gung-ho even for Dunster House. If the reader can get past the authors who have an axe or two to grind and the writers who try too hard to prove they are talented, he will probably thumb his way to the back of the book and the articles on extra-curricular activities...

Author: By Robert H. Sand, | Title: Three Twenty Two | 5/21/1958 | See Source »

...this bit once--this eight to midnight grind with weekends off. So on Friday you tie one on and talk about it for a week and call it excitement. Big thrill! It's a cream-puff world with less kicks than a bird-bath swim, and you make it a shell game and like...

Author: By John B. Radner, | Title: Just Passing Through | 5/20/1958 | See Source »

Harvard's favorite outdoor sport--the annual spring bike race to Wellesley College--will return for a few hours this Saturday. The 15-mile grind starts at Larz Anderson Bridge at 2:30 p.m. Anyone interested must register at the start to be eligible for the prize--a $120 French racing bike--and such other rewards as may accrue to the glorious victor upon his arrival at Wellesley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annual Wellesley Bike Race | 5/9/1958 | See Source »

...watched as African graduate students did a Congo mambo bump-and-grind to a jungle drum and peddled cups of thick syrup to the spectators...

Author: By George Apley, | Title: Ulysses | 5/6/1958 | See Source »

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