Word: gristly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Corporation's present function is largely dedicated toward financial matters and to milling the grist submitted to them by the various faculties. Few innovations come from the Corporation's twice-monthly meetings...
...unrelenting pursuit such as we ((the Tower board)) undertook, and such as the media undertook, that respect of the people for Government itself suffers unjustly. Disdain for Government leads the best people to shun service in that Government; less talented people are even more prone to provide grist for investigative reporting, which further tarnishes the image of Government...
...bard of the Beat Generation can still grind startling, creative, and provocative images from the grist mill of his modern America. A four-line poem entitled "Suprise Mind" reads...
...that music is emotionally neutral, many contemporary composers of serious music have sought to expunge all extramusical references from their work. New Age music, on the other hand, is frankly, if often banally, evocative: of waterfalls, wheatfields, even the mysterious but benign resonance of deep space. All nature is grist for its mill. Former Bebop Jazzman Paul Winter, who is now making New Age records, lists his inspirations as he "African mbira (a hand-held instrument played with the fingers or thumbs) as well as the sounds of the humpback whale, eagle and the timber wolf." If much...
...good-hearted young local attorney made note of the fast life in the dance halls, saloons and casinos, then appended a letter home: "Still there is hope, for I know of two Bibles in town"), and finally fell into desuetude, having little more purpose in the world than grist for the mills of pulp- fiction writers. It clung on, though, a self-proclaimed "town too tough to die," until that moment in this century when the nation realized collectively there was value in old things: if there was gold in them thar Vermont barns, there was money to be made...