Word: grit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...personal loss that pervaded the nation with his death, Martin Luther King's heritage of nonviolence seemed to have endured its architect's demise. Those who predicted that racial pacifism had passed with him were contradicted last week from Harlem to Watts, in Northern ghettos and Southern grit towns, where black leaders and youths in great numbers took to the tense streets and urged their brothers to "cool it for the Doc." Mississippi's Charles Evers curbed a Jackson rising with Kingly oratory. Even such hardcore militants as Harlem Mau Mau Leader Charles 37X Kenyatta...
Haider today is a combination of grit and polish. He hates cold weather from his tours in Canada, speaks acceptable Spanish from his connections with Latin America. He enjoys opera, frequently attends performances in New York with U.S. Steel Chairman Roger Blough, another buff. On business trips, he likes to get up a Cajun card game known as Bouree, a variety of pitch in which pots get increasingly more costly. He seldom loses at Bouree, but he can afford it if he does. For running its global empire, Jersey Standard last year paid him $395,833 in salary and bonuses...
According to Epstein, Manchester described Johnson in the book as "a crafty schemer," and "an oyster who patiently converts bits of grit into salable pearls." He also says that Manchester pictured Johnson, after three years as Vice-President, as "virtually impotent," and that expecting Johnson to help with Congress was, in Manchester's words, "like expecting an erection from a paramecium. It couldn't work. The creature had no member...
...swiftly inverted and the other inserted. The added weight of the second magazine, however, is enough to draw the lip of the first magazine out of true, and can lead to a bent round and a fatal jam. Moreover, Delta mud, jungle gunk, and the grit blown up by helicopter rotors demand the rifleman's constant attention...
...Pinky have a knack for putting their personalities into their playing-a surprising achievement at an age when most young musicians merely display a coldly glittering technique. Cookie's performance of Bruch and Mozart was sensitive and finely shaded; in passages of Beethoven and Saint-Saens she showed grit and fire as well. Pinky, tapping his feet and swaying into a sort of golfer's follow-through, plunged with intuitive flair and gusto into music by Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart and Tchaikovsky, and his broad, compelling tone filled up the hall...