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Word: gristly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Desperate for new grist for Alabama's busily churning football mill, Bryant and his ten assistants scoured a three-state area, staged coaching clinics, later even enlisted the assistance of Alabama's Governor John Patterson. With each young prospect Bryant's approach varied: sometimes he was fatherly and cajoling, sometimes he was tough and terse. To wavering Tackle Prospect Steve Wright. Bryant rasped: "Steve, we were considering you, but I think I've changed my mind. You don't have the guts to play for Alabama." Wright begged for a chance to sign. To compete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Bear at 'Bama | 11/17/1961 | See Source »

Andover, N.J., Grist Mill Playhouse: Tennessee Williams' comedy, Period of Adjustment, with Dane Clark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sep. 1, 1961 | 9/1/1961 | See Source »

Rather than a malted, Shirley is really a marm-a frustrated, febrile virgin teaching a grist of young Maoris in New Zealand, the homeland of Author Sylvia Ashton-Warner, on whose literary masterpiece, Spinster, the film is based-or, better, grounded. For all that was artless power, poetry and humor in the book is now arty, prosy and plodding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Spoiled Spinster | 5/19/1961 | See Source »

Everyone knows that John F. Kennedy is rich-but almost no one, perhaps even including Jack himself, knows just how rich. Last week came some grist for the wealth-wonderers' mill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Money Talk | 1/20/1961 | See Source »

...What grist for the Protestant scandalmongers' mill! Everything that American Catholicism has stood for-separation of church and state, freedom of religion, a non-temporal clergy-is endangered by the stupid, archaic and "dog-in-the-manger" mouthings of these modern-day Savonarolas. This sort of thing is precisely what makes Protestants turn green at the gills and red in the face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 21, 1960 | 11/21/1960 | See Source »

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