Word: grindingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?", and winds up with the Disney Anthem, the Mickey Mouse Club song. Running the review a close second is the Country Bear Jamboree: 18 cleverly animated bear robots, highlighted by a paunchy, off-key, gravel-voiced grizzly named Big Al, that grind out country music and rural humor. Like the robots in the Mickey Mouse Review, the bears are animated by the Disney-patented "auto-animatronic" system, run by computer tapes synchronized with the music. They move so realistically, in fact, that audiences find themselves actually applauding mechanical figures. Some other hits at Disney...
...euphoric return to the academic grind went for a cool $180 per person...
...sense, they did. Nearly two weeks after union printing presses started to grind out blistering attacks on the President's program, a majority of union members questioned around the nation by TIME correspondents seemed to agree with Atlanta Hod Carrier W.C. Herd: "Something had to be done. If this holds prices down, it's bound to help." Many expressed no bitterness at the prospect of living on their current wages for 90 days. Says New York Policeman Jim Fitzpatrick, whose union has been negotiating with the city for a new contract in place of the expired one for eight months...
Laver lost 19 of his first 21 pro matches, and tennis seemed a terrible grind. In his new book, The Education of a Tennis Player, he recalls nosebleeds and oddly flying shots in the 12,000-ft. heights of La Paz, Bolivia, where "we killed ourselves to win a $600 watch, blood streaming down our faces and the balls zooming everywhere." In Khartoum he and three other pros played for a share of $1,000 in a match that ended with a "bug curfew" -a descending swarm of angry insects. He tells of matches on makeshift courts that were...
Even more intense is the students' disgust with the lycée emphasis on rigid classical learning. Although gifted survivors of the grind emerge with sharply honed minds, today's students are increasingly unable to see any connection between their mnemonic classes and the skills they will need as 20th century adults. Children from eleven to 15 are required to recite entire scenes from the plays of Corneille, Moliere and Racine, plus a spate of La Fontaine's Fables. Even in top classes, pupils must memorize statistics on agricultural, industrial and energy production for long lists...