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...picked up the habit, and merchants spread it to the rest of Europe. By some accounts, Spain took more wealth out of the New World in tobacco than in gold and silver. In the American colonies, the cigar became a symbol of winner-take-all capitalism and flinty frontier grit...
...severe tutelage of former Olympian Gustavo Thoeni. "I fought to win," said the husky Bolognese. "I gave the best of myself." Whether for giants like Tomba, upstarts like Aamodt or veterans like Fernandez Ochoa, the glamour has come with its fantasies and its fireworks, but only after years of grit...
...styled) reddish-blond locks. It is almost impossible to see his bony, big-eyed, broad-mouthed face without envisioning him atop a tractor. He is athletic but not graceful, a meat-and-potatoes player who got ahead by hard work. Says ex-champion turned TV commentator Fred Stolle: "Grit and determination, they're his trademarks." Adds Stolle's broadcast partner Cliff Drysdale: "Courier is a bulldog...
...last month's U.S. national championships in Orlando, Fla., Harding was several pounds overweight, and she sustained an ankle injury in practice. But with typical grit she stuck to her program, which includes a triple Axel, a 3 1/2-revolution trap of a jump that only Ito and she have landed in competition. In the short program she fell. In the long program, she tumbled again and lost any chance of catching Kerrigan. Was she foolhardy to try? Maybe, but she gave notice that, win or lose, she means business...
Hopefully, confidence, grit and a little luck will bring the Crimson a much desired...