Word: gritted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best all-around athlete. When she was a freckled, scrawny 13, she put in a solid three months' practice on her diving to capture the championship of Laurel Beach (Conn.) from a far shapelier 18-year-old. Said Mary Jane: "They gave the cup to Ros for grit, not form." Learning the raptures of hard work, she plugged away at toe dancing until, after one long session, she could cry dramatically: "Look! My toes are bleeding...
...feels the waves in surprising ways. If he holds out his hand, his fingers get painfully hot whenever they touch one another. If he partially opens his mouth, his nasal cavities may resonate like organ pipes. Sometimes his lower jaw vibrates so strongly that he has to grit his teeth to quiet it down. His ears get hot as they ride the waves; his nostrils get hot too. He may see only vague blurs as his eyeballs dance, and individual muscles resonate like plucked guitar strings...
...alert newsman discovered that it was Besse who had given Oxford ?1,500,000-biggest gift from a foreigner, second largest in modern times-to set up a new college, St. Antony's. Object : to foster Anglo-French relations and further the characteristic he admired most in Oxonians-"grit...
Protests against dentures and spectacles charges were as mere grains of grit compared to the big rocks the Tribune hurled at Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Gaitskell-the issues of price rises, the extent of rearmament, and its encroachment on the welfare state. In short Gait-skell's budget said that Britain had to make some sacrifices of living standards and social services in order to rearm. Bevan & Co. insisted that social services must all take precedence over defense. To avoid this very clash, Attlee on Jan. 18 had moved Bevan from Minister of Health to Minister of Labor...
...Tamper? Uncle Joe did not see himself as grit. He thought others, e.g., fellow Republicans T.R., "Old Bob" La Follette and George Norris, were deadly wrong when they roared against the trusts and the tariffs. America is a hell of a success, Uncle Joe insisted, and why tamper with it? With the single-minded devotion of the pure in heart, he stacked the membership of the House's 60-odd committees, awarded key chairmanships to his cohorts to make sure that nobody did tamper...