Word: gritted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tired, wizened face and instinctively gentle manners. His expression ordinarily was one of harassed patience. I never once saw him lose his temper, in spite of maddening and innumerable provocations. When they became unendurable, he would merely sigh, run his fingers through his rumpled tussock of greying hair and grit his stainless steel teeth. (That's the usual material for bridgework in the U.S.S.R. because of the shortage of dental porcelain...
...grit and by gumption, the British had got off to a head start on the South Atlantic haul. All they had last week was a temporary permit from Perón to fly into Argentina, six serviceable Lancastrians (carrying only 13 passengers on the long Atlantic hop), and a staff that was ex-R.A.F. But the only point-to-point competition for B.S.A.A.'s 55-hour, $705 service so far came from Pan American's $921 dogleg via New York...
...stones are unsatisfactory, he can only grit his teeth. All sales are final. Actually, these highhanded arrangements are less the normal workings of a cartel than a shrewd defense against such suits as Biddle's. In effect the cartel, legal in Britain, holds that by selling only in London it does not do business...
...good dentifrice "is not gritty and does not contain an acid." Grit test: use a nickel to rub some dentifrice on a piece of glass; if the glass is not scratched, the teeth presumably will...
...very dark and the air was choking with the reek of cordite and grit and the fine dry dust of rotten old woodwork. My eyes and nose were full of dirt. I was shivering from panic and excitement, but at the same time experiencing an extraordinary sensation of being completely all right and unhurt, no matter what horrible thing had happened...