Word: grinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stanton's specialty, and sports thus far are television's biggest attraction. Once, back in 1932, he had a brief fling at singing in a band (his onetime lyric tenor has now become a well-modulated announcer's baritone), but singing was "too much of a grind." After he began sports announcing, he spent eight years playing second fiddle to Sportcaster Bill Stern, doing the crowd description fill-ins at big games and announcing the second-string events. In 1940 he had a chance to telecast the New York World's Fair Soap Box Derby...
...ground; then Phalanx showed a liking for the sport. Says Trainer Sylvester Veitch: "He's not hard to handle, but he'd just as soon step on you as not." Smart but rather overbearing, Phalanx is built-to-order for the rough, mile-and-a-quarter Derby grind. He isn't fussy whether the track is dry or muddy...
Stuart Allen was not the kind of teenager to attract either attention or popularity in St. Joseph (Mo.) Central High School. He was too selfconscious, too meticulously dressed, too fussily precise in his speech. His sophomore classmates thought of him simply as a grind with honor grades and a grind's liking for music, books and such unfashionable pastimes as mah-jongg...
Tramping ponderously into a crowded congressional caucus room, John spoke of death and terror in the bowels of the earth. When he mentioned the widows and children of Centralia's dead, his voice sank to a whisper. He cried: "If we must grind up human flesh and bone in the industrial machine . . . then before God I assert that those who consume coal owe them and their families protection. ... I care not who in heaven or hell oppose it. . . ." Roaring, whispering or hammering the table, he always swiveled back to his target-Krug...
...winter grind in the Newell tank and the miles of arduous pulling on the river, Bolles likens, picturesquely, to a historian's reading in the Widener stacks. It is a self-satisfying labor, accompanied by a feeling that "we have made the effort, even if we don't excel." Of the American sports enthusiast who follows and plays football, baseball, and basketball for his team athletics, and who wonders why anyone would take up crew, Bolles smiles wisely and asks, "Have you ever rowed...