Word: grinding
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...fenced in high school in order to get out of gym class...” I actually fenced because I thought it was AWESOME! Something you’ve always wanted to tell someone: At the end of bar mitzvah season, I won the award for grind-master dance king. Favorite childhood activity: Age 10, walking up to couples at family parties with a camera and asking them to show that they love each other. Sexiest physical trait: My pectoral muscles. I get compliments on them all the time. Best part about Harvard: Cambridge locals who think their political views...
...time I was caught peering into DeWolfe windows with my binoculars to me living like a troll under Weeks Footbridge. It is so humiliating for me to call out to every passerby “answer me, these riddles three,” just to get the grain to grind for my bread. It’s hard to get excited for June 7th when we are already so far beyond the Harvard community, and this time we’re not only talking about raw cognitive capacity. Is our lack of enthusiasm because we feel like we?...
...finish higher than fourth-place before the weekend. “Our coach said that he was excited because we always put in a lot of effort, and we did well on execution this week,” Brants said. “We were able to kind of grind it out.” The women are convinced that the win will have lasting reverberations heading into the final pre-Nationals regatta next week. “It was a good confidence booster, because we were really consistent,” Dahlman said. “We?...
Walking to a preview screening last week of Grindhouse, I got a whiff (fetid, of course) of the exploitation-movie past. The screening was on 12th Street in Manhattan's East Village, and my walk took me along 14th Street past a prime grind house, the Metropolitan Theatre - or rather past the hole in the ground where the Metropolitan once stood. There used to be a film stills shop next door: Movie Star News, whose proprietor, Irving Klaw, supplemented his income by making and selling films of bondage princess Bettie Page...
...Kids looking for cinematic transgression today have to get it on on the screen. Modern theaters are just boxes with movies inside. They are to the vanished grind houses what the Disney-dressed-up 42nd Street is to the old, disreputable Deuce...