Word: grit
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...more thing? About the role that Bill Clinton has played in this campaign? E.K.: He's a very significant figure in our time and he cares very deeply about the process and he cares very deeply about her. And I admire his grit in trying to do everything he possibly can to secure the nomination...
...Translated by Andrew X. Pham and annotated by Tram's younger sister, Dang Kim Tram, Last Night I Dreamed of Peace offers a rare combination of lyricism, grit, passion and humanity. "What am I?" Tram asks at one point. "I am a girl with a heart brimming with emotions, yet with a mind that never falters before a complex and dangerous situation." She might have been speaking for a generation of idealistic young Vietnamese who never returned from the battlefields...
...well as pretty much everything else about me, I firmly intended to shove into the background so that my new persona as a normal, Gore-Tex-loving co-ed could take center stage. All it was going to take, I decided, was a little imagination and a lot of grit...
...think there’s a lot of heart, and a lot of grit...and a lot of pain and exhilaration and joy that comes out of being on the underground,” says Ring. “But the main goal is to make music that a lot of people want to hear...
...while these late-risers prepped themselves for the best that Harvard varsity sports has to offer, they missed out on a true display of grit and determination by a group of real weekend warriors: the participants of the intramurals Fall River...