Word: grist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just long enough (seven minutes) for picture taking. The New Dealing New York Post found in the program some vague evidence of capitalism's corruption ("Sales are sometimes clinched by a clinch ... in the world of free enterprise"). The New York Journal-American saw the whole thing as grist for Communist propaganda, sent out a girl reporter to interrogate Murrow. The reporter tracked him to the very door of a CBS washroom, but got no information, was reduced to reporting about his red suspenders ("They're cute"). The Journal also came close to daring...
...deal with professors in the humanities and the social sciences; quirkily, he remarks that "I retain what may be an erroneous view that the natural scientists are less contentious, more generous, and, except for physicists and geneticists, less intellectual." grist for the mill, or at least is thought to be; so that if I attend a party people think I am observing them even when I am not, and if they meet me on a plane they ask me whether or not I think they are upper-middlebrows...
Those who failed to foresee anything twinkly in such summer-budget grist could always retire to the beach with their radios. But they would also have to remember that, when replacement time comes in TV, fall is not far behind. If they listened very keenly, they could even now hear a dominant, ominous sound of autumn-the greatest thunder of hoofbeats ever to rumble across the land...
...Vanishing Hero is a promising-looking book. Subtitled "Studies in the Novelists of the Twenties," it is a series of short, incisive chapters on eight English and American writers who generally make fine grist for critical mills. Sean O'Faolain, the author, is a man who has demonstrated a conspicuous and sensitive intelligence in a wide variety of fields...
...this was grist to Khrushchev's mill...