Word: grit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just have to grit our teeth and either walkaway or argue back," he says. "Unless it becomessuch a nuisance that it continually interfereswith your own life...
...Your heart breaks for these folks," said Governor Pete Wilson after touring some of the hardest-hit areas. Earlier, when the rains began to fall on Sacramento, the Governor had been making his second-term inaugural speech. He had spoken of the grit and tenacity with which Californians had overcome one destructive force after another. The venue for the gubernatorial address had been changed from outdoors to indoors because of the weather; meanwhile the true deluge was moving toward California on the wings of a 200-m.p.h. jet stream. Normally, a high-pressure dome off the coast deflects such activity...
...This was by far our best effort of the season," Tomassoni said. "We came out, showed grit, came out at them consistently and didn't let up. We were that much more focused in all phases of the game." Harvard 3 St. Lawrence...
Especially after another Frozen North overtime goal for Perry "I Love This Road Trip" Cohagan, Harvard could again be on the road to normalcy atop the ECAC standings. Harvard did very well to outshoot the Golden Knights 43-30, and when Tomassoni spoke of the "grit" and "determination" that his troops showed on the Cheel Arena ice, you knew Konik was right...
...Gates and Arthur Agee are sports heroes and working stiffs -- magicians on the high school basketball court who stagger under the burden of producing wins (and glory and revenue) for their team. Documentarians Steve James, Fred Marx and Peter Gilbert have produced an epic of love, betrayal, heartbreak, true grit...