Word: grist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harding insists that everything Bunyan wrote is grist for the analyst, and especially his slips of the pen. since they are not accidents, but the certain results of subconscious desires. Example: Bunyan wrote of the "straight and narrow" path (instead of the Biblical spelling, strait). This means, says Analyst Harding, that Bunyan was subconsciously rebellious against the strait and narrow path of Puritanism, perhaps even the very practice of Christianity itself...
Then the shadow of the Home Office fell between Pierrepoint and his readers. The government, which still supports the death penalty, felt that the memoirs made grisly grist for foes of capital punishment, who are now pushing their bill in the House of Lords. Under the Official Secrets Act, the Home Office demanded the right to censor the stories. When the paper defied the censorship in one installment, the government threatened to prosecute at the next violation...
...life is a grind for the undergraduate, it is a grist mill for the advanced student. Already equipped with some scientific training, the grad student finds Tech more a job where he is an apprentice than a school where he is a learner. For him this is no 9-5 day, 40-hour week proposition. The chemical engineers and spectroscopists may work around the clock figures on a dial, and the night lights of the architectural drafting room are a beacon that can be seen as far down Mass. Ave, as Central Square...
...Northwest Synod of the United Lutheran Church of heresy charges similar to those for which the Rev. George P. Crist Jr. of Durham was convicted (TIME, Aug. 8). The committee found "obvious confusion, immaturity and inconsistencies in Gerberding's position and recommended administrative action by the synod. Pastor Grist's comment: "The trial was considerably different from mine...
Such matters were grist for the congressional mill, but they hardly stacked up as a solid campaign"But none of these mistakes adds up to scandal, or even superficially documents such wild charges as Kefauver's that the President had to cancel the Dixon-Yates contract because it was be coming more scandalous, more smelly, all the time . . . When Memphis, in June 1955, announced it had arranged to build its own power plant at the expense of local basic points he taxpayers, made the in 1952 President...