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...grind: Michael S. Dukakis, Democratic candidate for governor will never forgive himself for failing the Democratic primary in 1978. It was something everyone thought he would easily ace, but he took it for granted. This lime he's leaving nothing to chance--spending days holed up on the campaigns trail, reading through the voting list over and over. All indications are that this will pay off for him, but he started in September. Unless you've done the same it's too late...

Author: By Jacob M. Schlesinger, | Title: Down to the Wire | 10/28/1982 | See Source »

Reagan's principal defense was a grind-'em-down offense. In a speech at the University of Nevada's Reno campus, he said of his Democratic critics: "Where were they when the economy first started going haywire? What are they offering now except the same failed policies of the past? We're all paying the penalty of those tragic excesses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beating Gloom to the Punch | 10/18/1982 | See Source »

Glemp, the Polish Primate, told a crowd of well over 100,000 pilgrims in Czestochowa: "The dialogue could begin to build toward an agreement and relieve the hatred that can sometimes be invisible when people keep silent and grind their teeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland: Recalling in Sorrow and Hope | 8/30/1982 | See Source »

Trend setters Comfortable with the opposite sex and partial to high fashion, the ranking socialities insist on an appearance of casualness while they grind it out just like the rest of them. They shake hands and peck cheeks with studied grace. Sometimes sleep together, and always talk about it within earshot of their elders...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Looking Out For Harold And His Friends | 8/10/1982 | See Source »

...oddest spectacles in America, in fact, has to be a Tom Jones audience, in which a couple of dozen women, usually attractive and well dressed, throw their panties onto the stage and compete for what appears to be a deep kiss from the male master of the bump and grind. Yet even in Atlantic City only four casinos regularly count on stars to help fill the gaming rooms. Like their counterparts in Vegas, the other five produce their own revues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Are the Stars Out Tonight? | 8/9/1982 | See Source »

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