Word: grit
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...Blues and Royals rode out as usual for the mounting of the guard, bearing the tattered standard of their comrades. As they approached the blackened spot where the car had exploded, the men on horseback saluted the fallen with upraised swords. It was a typically British display of 2 grit. Prime Minister Thatcher visited wounded members of the Green Jackets in London's St. Mary's Hospital. She moved from bed to bed and stopped to console Gillian Ward, 22, whose husband David, a clarinet player, lay heavily bandaged. Said Thatcher: "These brave young men are an example...
...their Salyut 7 space station, which was pointedly visited by three cosmonauts, one of them a Frenchman, while Columbia circled the earth several hundred miles below it. As Reagan noted, the space shuttle shows the world that "Americans still have the know-how and Americans still have the true grit that conquered a savage wilderness." Yet the space agency, which has planned 98 more shuttle flights through 1989, realizes that the program faces a new round of challenges...
...aching five-minute lamentation, Élégy-as well as the great older pieces, she danced with the daring thrust and exquisite musicality that make her perhaps the finest ballerina in the country now. Or it could have been a Heather Watts festival, for this sexy, all-grit dancer seemed to be onstage and in command every night...
...Austin cannot understand Kimmer's enthusiasm about Lee' movie, because it is a real holster-grabbing, double-barreled Western "I m the one who's in touch, not him?" Austin yells at Kimmer But the movie producer doesn't agree: he thinks Lee's plot has honest-to-goodness grit. "We make movies. American movies. Leave films to the French," he snaps at Austin. The criticism is implicit but clear: the West survives because the American people want it to survive, because it cannot be expunged from our hearts. Austin is rooting for the wrong side...
...hardy, of course, are the first to point out that injuries are only, well, the breaks of the game. Gusto bring, glory; if you don't have grit, get out. And no studies such have shown that House athletic injuries outstrip those in varsity athletics. Many of the injuries that do occur specifically the wide-spread concussions of House football, have cropped up before on other fields of battle specifically in high school football (In a sense intramurals are more fertilizer to hurt than they are spawning ground...