Word: grindingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...good people--Kael (The New Yorker), Hatch (Nation), Kauffmann (New Republic), and Sarris (Village Voice)--each have an axe to grind, and make no bones about grinding it. Kael has a perversely radical culture-consciousness, loving most those films which, rooted to a trashy crowd-pleasing base, manage to transcend it. Simon is a classicist, and treats film with the same stern regard as theater; his occasional fault is literary pretension. Hatch and Kauffmann retain the social concern of the more serious '50's liberals, while Sarris's devotion to the Great God Cinema is at least more passionate...
...frequent moaning from their rooms at the Intercontinental contrasted eerily with the noisy candlelight poker and chess games of the correspondents who were not standing four-hour guard duty to keep out intruders. The hotel roof could hardly have been a better place for TV crews to grind away at air strikes. During the raids, shrapnel was occasionally fished out of the swimming pool, and a large time bomb planted in the hotel was disarmed and replanted in a trench on the nearby lawns. Beer soon ran out, but there was always fish or something else tasty for those cured...
...Orange Bowl has soared from an average of 34,687 two seasons ago to sellout crowds of 75,312 for the last two home games. Last week a national TV audience watched Kiick and Csonka, known to the adoring "Dol-fans" as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, grind out a total of 175 yds. on the ground. Coupled with Griese's brilliant passing (twelve completions in 17 attempts, two touchdowns), the Dolphins mauled the Bears 34 to 3. Afterward, Bear Coach Jim Dooley confidently predicted what Miamians already accept as a certainty: the Dolphins are bound...
Doherty suggested to the jury that none of the six officers who testified that Harrison was on the steps next to Matthews "had an axe to grind" in the case...
Significant Gain. For sheer grind-it-out glory, though, the Year of the Runner belongs to Cornell's Ed Marinaro. Though he ran for more than 200 yds. in three of the season's first five games, the brawny (6 ft. 21 in., 214 Ibs.) tailback made his most significant gain against Columbia in the Big Red's sixth game. It was a routine 3-yd. plunge in the first quarter, but it bettered by 2 yds. the career rushing record of 3,867 yds. set by 1969 Heisman Trophy Winner Steve Owens at Oklahoma. Two quarters...