Word: grit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crop in. Before all those bad crops in the early seventies, too. He doesn't say anything. There was a time when Elvis seemed to be saying, as Harry Crews said, that you didn't have to take it in Dipshit, Tennessee, just because you lived in some dumb grit town. For a second you can feel the elation that was Elvis; the man who gave a whole region a little bit of pride. And then it's gone and the whole thing's just too damn sad. All of it--this couple traveling six hours to see a goddamn...
...paralyzed in a plane crash four years later, has tirelessly attacked AMAX and questioned its assurances that the mine will do no harm. Noting that up to 20,000 tons of ore will be removed every day for 20 or 30 years, Mitchell forecasts an onslaught of people, noise, grit and crime. Says he: "There are messes all over the West in the name of growth. Big mining companies have no divine right to mine and tear up a community. They'd rape us and leave us bleeding...
...work ethic is dead. About the only good words for it now emanate from Ronald Reagan and certain beer commercials. Those ads are splendidly mythic playlets, romantic idealizations of men in groups who blast through mountains or pour plumingly molten steel in factories, the work all grit and grin. Then they retire to flip around iced cans of sacramental beer and debrief one another in a warm sundown glow of accomplishment. As for Reagan, in his presidential campaign he enshrined work in his rhetorical "community of values," along with family, neighborhood, peace and freedom. He won by a landslide...
...squad, however, showed signs of improvement over last year's performance, when the Crimson triumphed 7-1. The URI zone, which had worried Crimson coach Carole Kleinfelder earlier in the week, showed its grit in the second half, crowding the Harvard offense and causing slopping passing...
Showing the grit that earned him his nickname, Downs swam his personal best in the 500-yd, freestyle and qualified for the Eastern Championships in that event, then came back in the very next race--the 200-yd, backstroke--to take another first H final triumph of the day was by the scanty margin of one second in the 200-yd, freestyle...