Word: grit
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Fifty years after they penned their first song, their exuberant music is still everywhere, blasting out of the radio on old records and new CDs, jiving up TV commercials and lending grit to movie sound tracks. Their song collection, Smokey Joe's Cafe, became the longest-running revue in Broadway history, toured Europe and Japan, and is now playing Las Vegas and Seoul...
...their corps of discovery, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark selected men with grit and guts. Both qualities were put to the test: the group battled rattlesnakes and grizzlies, suffered boils and dysentery, portaged canoes up hills and through rocky ravines, and were reduced to eating dogs and horses in the course of their 28-month, 8,000-mile trek to chart the western wilderness...
...garlands. In the Bush universe, the subject is a private matter. Indeed, even as he honors his father and worships his example, George W. Bush never misses a chance to insist that what he has accomplished he has done on his own, by his own efforts and talents and grit. He touts his record as a successful businessman without acknowledging how much of his success reflected the financial backing of his father's friends and their desire to be associated with the Bush name. And he stakes his claim to the presidency based on his record as Governor of Texas...
RALPH REED Christian consultant shows Amazing Grit: refurbishes Bush image...
...quality players like Bookman and Kowell, Pankau has undoubtedly solidified Harvard's presence in the EIVA. In fact, Pankau grins knowingly as he observes that this is Harvard's best team since he's been here. It is, without question, a team that Ed Pankau has built with his grit, determination and leadership...