Word: grinding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sought to shed previous apathy's and get more involved in community life. But, like many other men who served in Vietnam, Vallely had to cope with inner problems of listlessness and boredom. Working from nine to five at a civil engineering firm, he says, eventually became a grind...
...grind: Michael S. Dukakis, Democratic candidate for governor will never forgive himself for failing the Democratic primary in 1978. It was something everyone thought he would easily ace, but he took it for granted. This lime he's leaving nothing to chance--spending days holed up on the campaigns trail, reading through the voting list over and over. All indications are that this will pay off for him, but he started in September. Unless you've done the same it's too late...
Reagan's principal defense was a grind-'em-down offense. In a speech at the University of Nevada's Reno campus, he said of his Democratic critics: "Where were they when the economy first started going haywire? What are they offering now except the same failed policies of the past? We're all paying the penalty of those tragic excesses...
Glemp, the Polish Primate, told a crowd of well over 100,000 pilgrims in Czestochowa: "The dialogue could begin to build toward an agreement and relieve the hatred that can sometimes be invisible when people keep silent and grind their teeth...
Trend setters Comfortable with the opposite sex and partial to high fashion, the ranking socialities insist on an appearance of casualness while they grind it out just like the rest of them. They shake hands and peck cheeks with studied grace. Sometimes sleep together, and always talk about it within earshot of their elders...