Word: grits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...answer has been a combination of U.S. money and Vietnamese grit. It is called the Hamlet School Project, a scheme that has put half a million Vietnamese children in school since 1963, and which aims eventually at putting a school and trained teacher in every "secure" hamlet in the nation. In the en tire U.S.-supported pacification program, no project has proved more popular with the war-battered rural populace...
...fact, Congress has no choice but to grit its teeth and bear Powell for another two years. Where the Congress should act, and act quickly, is in taking measures to make sure that the present dilemma does not repeat itself in the future...
...enemy agent, hijacks the sub, and tries to kill the patient by ramming a neural ganglion. Not a second too soon, Hemonaut Boyd sinks the sub with the laser gun. The villain is then devoured, head first, by a white cell that resembles a large, aggressive hominy grit. Whereupon the survivors follow the optic nerve until they squirt out of the tear duct and are rescued from a teardrop that looks like Lake Michigan. And then back, BACK, BACK to normal size...
...police found her lacerated body last October? From the testimony, she emerged as a simple, stoic girl who resigned herself to her early mistreatment, only to become too numbed and weakened by its later savagery to resist. At first, when Sylvia was abused, her sister testified, she would "just grit her teeth and shake her head." After young Hobbs, using a heated anchor bolt, branded Sylvia with the numeral 3, she said: "There's nothing I can do. It's on there...
...journal. It gushes throughout the book, which is about the lynch-murder of a Negro boy in a small Southern town. At its best, Grubb's imagery is impressive and his prose is lyrical. But his uncontrolled bombast, his near-hysterical characters, and his determination to leave no grit unhominized often make the cliché-ridden novel read like a bad parody...