Word: grinding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Federman, who was not an expert on the issue, was chosen in part because "he had no ax to grind," Hayes said, adding that he does not receive research grants from the five foundations which sponsored the study...
Once the Congress, the courts, the huge media complex become engaged in examining an unhappy event like this one, the American system demands a conclusion. The wheels grind to the end. Only purity survives, and sometimes not even that...
...bard of the Beat Generation can still grind startling, creative, and provocative images from the grist mill of his modern America. A four-line poem entitled "Suprise Mind" reads...
...session. Allowing temporary legal residents to remain in the country until Congress reconsiders their status hurts no one--no one, that is, except nativists. In enforcing what it sees as the letter of the law, the INS contemptuously flouts its spirit and demonstrates that it has an ax to grind...
...will have any power then, there will be no patronage to dispense from here or from Washington. The field will be wide open for people who love the game of politics because they love to win and think they can govern, not because they have an ideological axe to grind...