Word: grindingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...What the hell is American Chop Suey? John Shaffer, Assistant General Manager at the Freshman Dining Hall, explains, "American Chop Suey was based on the idea that chop suey was a whole bunch of stuff mixed together, so people used to take leftovers at the end of the week, grind up the meat, and mix it up." This may not sound too reasuring, but Shaffer further clarifies, "However, here American Chop Suey is not a leftover dish," as he hands me the secret recipe. Don't worry. It really is safe to eat. Finally, Shaffer warns me as I leave...
...Yokohama. American scientists have kept a close watch on the San Andreas fault that runs for 650 miles through California from north of San Francisco nearly to the Mexican border. But the Kobe and Northridge quakes occurred not along these major inter-plate faults--cracks where continent-size plates grind against one another--but on intra-plate faults that spiderweb a single giant plate...
...many of us, the holiday season is a time of renewal, a period when we step back from the daily grind and wonder how we can improve ourselves...
...Densely rhythmic and riddled with violent imagery, obscenities and the sound of gunshots, the Black Album is a bleak tour through an American ghetto of fractured homes and misogynistic, rootless young men -- a Clockwork Orange-style landscape ruled by drug dealers and petty hoods. Two of its songs, Le Grind and Dead on It, are explicit, sometimes monotonous odes not to sexual pleasure but to sexual conquest. On Bob George, a well-armed drug dealer kills his girlfriend after learning she's cheating on him ("I'm the one who pays the bills," he says), then holes...
Some students win high marks through brilliance. Others grind out good grades. Rudenstine is very smart, but at root he is a grind. That way of working has made him, by most accounts, a very successful manager of low-profile issues like the University deficit...