Word: grinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jawed beauty of Belsen, was one, and Juana Borman, once a religious missionary, who at Belsen had trained dogs to attack prisoners, was another. Then Kramer was hanged. Through Hameln town ran a rumor that some of Belsen's former inmates had been permitted to watch British justice grind to a sure ending...
...main characters are a squad of G.I.s, battle-weary from weeks of fighting at Cassino, war-weary from years of Army grind. The day they are to be sent back of the lines for a rest, the least popular of them gets trapped under enemy fire. Anxious as the others are to pull out, they are held back by some mystical emotion of comradeship and even disobey orders in an effort to rescue their...
...academic grind, which no West Pointer can laugh off, proved only a passing problem to Blockbuster Blanchard. Differential calculus could hardly be mastered in five easy lessons, but neither could shot-putting, for that matter. In fact, it took Doc almost a whole season to get good enough to win the Indoor Intercollegiate 16-lb. shot-put title. Starting from scratch, he worked up to a solid 50 feet in just one winter...
...from a broken arm), Jug Mc-Spaden or Byron Nelson. Hogan finished fourth with a 3-under-par. In the longer run he was a good bet to succeed wartime golf's king of the links, fast-greying Byron Nelson, now 18 Ibs. underweight after the nerve-wearing grind of winning 16 tournaments within a year...
...hard surfaces away with an abrasive propelled by fast-moving air. Into a tooth cavity, a 1/50th-inch nozzle jets a sharply focused blast of fine aluminum oxide particles at 90 pounds pressure per square inch. The jet travels at the rate of 2,000 feet per second. The particles grind the tooth while the air pressure keeps it cool. Another nozzle, on the vacuum-cleaner principle, sucks in the abrasive particles as soon as they have done their work...