Word: grit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TRUE GRIT, by Charles Portis. An uproarious period piece about a 14-year-old girl who turns the wild frontier topsy-turvy while avenging the murder...
...True Grit, Portis...
...TRUE GRIT, by Charles Portis. An uproarious period piece about a 14-year-old girl who turns the wild frontier topsy-turvy while avenging the murder...
...morning in town was followed by an afternoon at the rambling summer house atop Minute Man Hill, which has an enormous veranda with a view of Long Island Sound when the sun breaks through the mists. Fortas kept busy scrubbing the winter's grit off the windows. Now and then, he would wheel a load of manure to his wife, Carolyn, who was working on the garden, soggy from the unseasonably heavy spring rains...
...little opportunity to do more than brand the charges "outrageous lies." But the ruling elders of his and other Chicago churches rushed to his defense. Said University of Chicago Theologian Martin Marty: "The John Fry I know is a man of integrity, honesty, grit and guts." Fry's attorney insisted that the real question was how to deal with juvenile gangs, by force or by conversion. "You should be studying this question, not badgering sincere, dedicated clerics who try only to help their deprived fellow man," said he, but McClellan gaveled him down. Lost in the furor...