Word: gritted
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Despite Unger’s nondescript performance (six points, five rebounds, one assist), his play oozed grit and determination, motivating his teammates with his work ethic and efficiency (committing only one foul and shooting 4-for-4 from the charity stripe...
...frequency with which the latter phenomenon occurs could suggest that the business of competitive college athletics is incompatible with a rigorous academic environment. Some argue that a reason to admit academically dubious athletes is that they tend to possess a deep discipline for their sport and this is grit we can learn from. Yet mediocre athletes can be highly disciplined too—athletic talent is not absolutely correlated with discipline for the sport...
...forces in this election, of course, are those of race and gender. After ingesting the January avalanche of pundit speculation in the wake of Iowa and New Hampshire, I too had chalked up my ambivalence about the two candidates to my own race and gender. I simply had to grit my teeth and decide which one was more important to me, which was in more dire need of “change”: my status as a minority or my status as a woman. As the campaign wore on, however, I came to realize that I don?...
...fact, we’ve never been introduced. I am, however, deeply disturbed to be receiving my post-Harvard marching orders from her. This is, after all, a woman who is remarkable for her ability to dupe children into thinking that all they need to face their demons are grit, courage, and a handful of dead relatives. At least Dan Brown managed to get people interested in some important works of art and J. R. R. Tolkien gave short people a reason to live. Our commencement speaker, meanwhile, tricked parents into letting their kids read books filled with sex, murder...
...around $60,000 for any foreigner who lives in the country for more than seven years, and wants the tax man to keep his hands off their non-British assets. Anyone unwilling to stump up that fee will have to pay taxes like everyone else. While the superrich may grit their teeth and accept the $60,000 bill as a minor irritation, it's expected that a significant number of Britain's nondoms won't pay it, and will thus be forced to join the general tax pool. Or they'll leave...