Word: grist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...secret computer database and storing the codes on the hard drive of his personal office computer. The actual transfer between systems was pretty easy, requiring little more than the kind of drag-and-click computer moves that millions of deskbound Americans perform every day. It wasn't exactly grist for a white-knuckle thriller...
...people reading your statement tend to seethings that happen here as essentially educationalin nature, and as grist for the learning mill,"the user's guide to the Ad Board says...
...adjoining fitting room even when you aren't on Harvard property proper. So the summer is for breaking out. Three peaceful months of respite from the tedium of continual human interaction and from an active gossip mill (one that keeps churning despite the scarcity of worthwhile grist...
...ever prove to every individual that [the use of sarin] was not the case? Probably not," Cohen said from the Pentagon. But "the retractions of both CNN and TIME should say it all." After mentioning pointedly that the story was welcome grist for Saddam Hussein in his propaganda campaign against the U.S., Cohen repeatedly praised the participants of Operation Tailwind for their valor and said that he hoped their reputations could be fully restored. Cohen looked relieved when the questioning moved on to other topics -- and he is certainly not alone in that sentiment...
...since India marked the 50th anniversary of its independence, a celebratory slew of printed matter has materialized assessing, among other facets of the Subcontinent, the state of the Indian state. Tomorrow's announcement of the results of the country's three-week-long general elections will provide ever more grist for the mill. At issue is how a nation of mind-boggling diversities will pursue its national project and how that national project should be defined...