Word: grit
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...impressive numbers belie a debilitating ankle injury that he overcame with grit and hard work. His phenomenal play last season earned him an All-Ivy honorable mention, one in a string of awards given to the talented forward...
...Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. James Carpinello, as Tony, doesn't have a voice to swoon over, but he's got the moves, while Orfeh (just the one name, thank you) is a husky-voiced stunner as Annette, the good girl who wants to be bad. There's some grit along with the glitz--a guy commits suicide, a girl is gang-banged in the backseat of a car, and the hero's big victory is spoiled by the fact that he doesn't deserve it. But mostly this is a cheery pop-rocket that lights up the stage the way disco...
...grit and no glory, the Bears (9-16-6, 5-12-5 10th) battled their way into the playoffs last season, only to suffer a heart-breaking elimination to top-seed Clarkson...
Simpson, who had retired as a Republican Senator from Wyoming when he came to the KSG, says that unless IOP Fellows and those like them inspire today's Harvard students, the students will be "eating grit with the chickens in 65 years" instead of leading the country...
...trouble began with what felt like a speck of grit in my left eye. I didn't think anything was seriously wrong--until three days later when the eye puffed up and turned weepy and red. I called Glen Ellyn Clinic near my home in west suburban Chicago, and a couple of hours later I found myself seated in a darkened room across from ophthalmologist Mary Mehaffey...