Word: grindingers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Grinding Pressure. His phone has been tapped, his office and home searched by police, his official sources restricted by Information Minister P.K. van der Byl. In a letter to a friend before the arrest, Niesewand said: "The worst part is the grinding social pressure -not knowing whether one or both...
It's hard to pinpoint where Bette is at her best. Her "Lullaby of Broadway/Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" medley, choreographed with her bumping and grinding Harlettes, opened the second act with overpowering excitement, and her version of "Leader of the Pack," acted out to poignant Shangri-La-type humming, captivated...
Miami expects just that. Lately even the girls have taken to requesting professional football tickets in lieu of cold cash. Like everyone else in town, they know that the hottest action around is not on the jai-alai courts or out at Hialeah, but in the Orange Bowl. There the...
Over at Mory's, the tables were empty except for a few local alumni quietly eating their suppers. But the Cross Campus Library. Yale's antiseptic new reserve book library, buried windowless beneath the dying elms and the gothic stone of the Yale campus, was packed with undergraduates grinding away...
BUT RIGHT AWAY we slip through the present's thin veneer and are submerged in the whole history of an object--in this case, a simple pencil. The entirety of one of the earliest of Nabokov's brief chapters is devoted to illustrating the past visible in that anonymous pencil...