Word: grindingly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Despite these concerns, however, Lesnikowski disagrees that you “need eight semesters of hard work. Seven semesters is okay.” He admits that after two years, he wanted a break from the Harvard grind. Despite the unusually heavy workload Lesnikowski experienced for a semester abroad, he still found time to visit Croatia, Poland, Turkey and Vienna (twice...
...pomp and circumstance--thepolice-escorted limousines, the grand conference rooms, the hordes of assistants and aides--international diplomacy can be a grind. For three years, Christopher Hill had sought a deal to disarm North Korea, only to be frustrated at every turn. But in the early hours of Feb. 13, that changed. Shortly before 3 a.m., the U.S. negotiator returned to his hotel room in Beijing with a deal in hand, thanks to arm twisting of North Korea by the Chinese. "They kept us up late," Hill said later. He wasn't the only one losing sleep. His boss...
...games showed anything, it was how tough the Ivy League’s unique Friday-Saturday schedule can be to road teams on the second night. Of the four games played last Saturday, three of the road teams suffered somewhat surprising losses, while the fourth had to grind out a tough win. First, title favorite Penn suffered its first loss of the conference campaign at Yale, 77-68. Then streaking Cornell had its four-game winning streak snapped at Lavietes Pavillion to a Harvard team that had been blown off its home court by Columbia the night before. The same...
...undergraduate education, according to Gordon, who is also the head of the independent Hong Kong publisher Chameleon Press. Shanghai is not currently considering any large-scale educational reforms, and Lewis characterized the Chinese education system, which has remained largely pre-professional and test-driven, as a “grind.” “They are trying to produce people with a set of skills that don’t vary in any way with the talents and interests of the individual,” Lewis said. However, Lewis emphasized that he sought to provide exposure...
...season grind affects everyone, even those fortunate enough to have avoided the trainer’s table to this point...