Word: grit
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...alert newsman discovered that it was Besse who had given Oxford ?1,500,000-biggest gift from a foreigner, second largest in modern times-to set up a new college, St. Antony's. Object : to foster Anglo-French relations and further the characteristic he admired most in Oxonians-"grit...
Protests against dentures and spectacles charges were as mere grains of grit compared to the big rocks the Tribune hurled at Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Gaitskell-the issues of price rises, the extent of rearmament, and its encroachment on the welfare state. In short Gait-skell's budget said that Britain had to make some sacrifices of living standards and social services in order to rearm. Bevan & Co. insisted that social services must all take precedence over defense. To avoid this very clash, Attlee on Jan. 18 had moved Bevan from Minister of Health to Minister of Labor...
...every power of the Speaker's office to stifle the reforms demanded by younger men. From liberals of that time he earned a new and bitter nickname: "Cannon the Strangler." The debatable thesis of Blair Bolles's Tyrant from Illinois is that Cannon was the conservative grit that irritated a goodly part of the next generation into "progressive" politics and produced the first pearly concepts of the welfare state...
...Tamper? Uncle Joe did not see himself as grit. He thought others, e.g., fellow Republicans T.R., "Old Bob" La Follette and George Norris, were deadly wrong when they roared against the trusts and the tariffs. America is a hell of a success, Uncle Joe insisted, and why tamper with it? With the single-minded devotion of the pure in heart, he stacked the membership of the House's 60-odd committees, awarded key chairmanships to his cohorts to make sure that nobody did tamper...
...hand, built it into a self-supporting outfit (with 4,500 subscribers) that any state could be proud of. Said Daily Oklahoman Critic Tracy Silvester last week: "In an area that has run pretty much to hillbilly and jukebox renditions, he has developed a literate orchestra [public] through sheer grit in presenting only what he thought was good music...