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Word: grindinger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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He awoke his roommate and summoned him to accompany him in case his enemy brought "friends." Little Joe's roommate was Big Joe, and Big Joe was 6 ft. 11 in. and 245 pounds. Big Joe told his roommate that it was all so silly, all these wolves grinding their...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Of Wolves and Men | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

Peeling in public for pay is a venerable occupation, but in the old sexist order the clothes came off a woman and the cheers came up from an audience ol men. But today at the Sugar Shack in Lake Geneva, Wis., or at the Red Pussycat in Salina, Kans., or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: And Now, Bring on the Boys | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

To be sure, many Korean laborers get subsistence wages for long hours and Dickensian working conditions. Still, there is ample evidence that the quality of life is gradually improving as South Korea's hard-earned wealth trickles down. Life in the cities and the countryside has a long way...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH KOREA: Talks with a Troubled Ally | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

So, a sophomore Republican Congressman from Iowa hog-tied Congress into passing two amendments to the Civil Service Reform Act, reducing Government employees by 29,000 and thereby bringing bureaucracy to a grinding halt. There should be more legislators like James Leach.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 28, 1979 | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

A job with a firm like the fictional Bass and Marshall is the reward for successful grade grubbing at a good law school, which John Jay Osborn Jr. wrote about with wit and feeling in his first novel, The Paper Chase. Hart, the hero of that book, "learned to love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Law Firm Follies | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

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