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Word: grits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jaipur defeated the Congress Party candidate in the election's biggest victory. The party was beaten in all major cities, stands third in Parliament with 18 seats. The Swatantra's plucky leader Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, called it a rout, but asked his supporters for the "patience and grit" to rally again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: Mandate for Menonism | 3/9/1962 | See Source »

...much of the paper's shorter material is useless. Inconsequential one-paragraph news stories merely add to the welter of material, and the more homey ones are reminiscent of Grit, a family weekly that used to specialize in colloquial good will and pictures of giraffes. If there is anything this country doesn't need it, is another Grit...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Good Circulation But No New Blood | 2/24/1962 | See Source »

...heels, and stubbornly eluded state troopers who tried to lure him off the course. At the 16-mile mark, the mongrel charged at Oksanen, who swerved suddenly and caused Kelley to trip and fall. Sprawled on the road with a skinned elbow and knee, a bleeding hand and a grit-stained face, Kelley got a helping hand from Fellow Runner Fred Norris, 39, a British coal miner turned student at McNeese State College in Lake Charles, La. Said Kelley: "That was a great show of sportsmanship." Said Norris. who never managed to get back in the race: "Somebody should have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Finnish Line | 4/28/1961 | See Source »

...Throwing human grit into the gears is the only thing that can stop the way machine," a sophomore and two fellow Polaris protest marchers asserted last night. The three were among 53 who started from Kittery, Maine, to the United Nations in New York in protest of the Portsmouth, N.H., missile base...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Demonstrators Declare Intention To Stop War With `Human Grit' | 3/18/1961 | See Source »

...aunt's legacy of ?300 and his mother's dying injunction to make something of himself. Almost awed by his presumption, he decides to be a lawyer, and it becomes a question of which will give out first-his money, his marks, or his health. Sheer grit gets him to the Inns of Court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Modern Polonius | 2/3/1961 | See Source »

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