Word: grit
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Chris's Billiards in Chicago, where the nation's top pool players rack 'em up before crowds in bleachers, is an old-fashioned pool hall, famous for its grit, its smoky aroma, its hints of intrigue and unsavory wheeling and dealing. For years the club, where Martin Scorsese filmed scenes of his 1986 Tom Cruise--Paul Newman hit, The Color of Money, was the kind of place parents warned their children to stay away from. Yet on a recent Tuesday afternoon Diana Dobrzynski, 5, was there shooting a few games with her brother Joshua, 12, and her grandmother, retired police...
...thing is clear though: Moore’s individual efforts are exemplary, his grit unquestioned and his game continuing to develop...
...hopes not. One can only hope that a couple of the scouts who have seen him throw in recent weeks realize that there’s always a place for a hard-throwing lefty with his grit and resolve and class. One hopes that the moment before the last out is recorded—regardless of the score—and the promise it holds are still available...
Hendricks (2-1) tossed the first eight innings of the Crimson’s 3-1 win, allowing one run on seven hits. He showed power (11 strikeouts), control (one walk) and grit (one hit allowed with runners in scoring position...
...steeling the public." While Iraqi officials gloated that the invaders did not have the stomach to bear the casualties inflicted on their forces, a different phenomenon unfolded in the war rooms in Washington, London and Qatar and in the coalition foxholes and camps scattered across the Iraqi desert; the grit of battle and the prospect of losses to come seemed to produce even more clear-eyed determination among the military leaders to finish the job. After a ceremony for fallen servicemen at his headquarters in Doha, Qatar, last Friday, Central Command Chief General Tommy Franks gathered his staff and tersely...