Word: gritted
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...Path to 9/11, airing Sept. 10 and 11 on ABC, dramatizes the report of the bipartisan 9/11 commission. (Court TV airs a documentary on the report, On Native Soil, Aug. 21.) Fast paced and shot with handheld cameras, Path plays like a somber, dysfunctional 24, with all the grit but little of the success. A few days before 9/11, CIA Director George Tenet (Dan Lauria) and CIA officer Kirk (Donnie Wahlberg) are in a conference room with bulletin boards groaning with intel notes--and have no way to make sense of it all. "Everything's blinking red," Tenet says...
...convoy waddled across the sand, the world she saw was flat, dull and yellow-brown, except where the water had turned the dust to reddish paste. The big trucks had been breaking down since they left the base in Kuwait, giving in to the grit that ate at the moving parts or bogging down in the mud and sand. Her convoy followed the route that had already been rutted or churned up by the columns ahead, and every time a five-ton truck hit a soft place and bottomed out, the 33 vehicles in Jessica's convoy dropped farther behind...
...heard Sergeant Robert Dowdy give the order to lock and load. Jessi grabbed the slide on the side of her M-16, tugged it back and tried to chamber a round. It jammed. She had cleaned it every day, but the grit had swirled in through the truck's windows all day and clogged it again with grime. She snatched at it, trying to eject the jammed cartridge...
...about finally taking out the symbolic and logistical heart of the Iraqi insurgency. In part, that is because the small, covert, 12-man teams of U.S. special forces have been chasing Zarqawi for years. "Every time I heard somebody complain we hadn't got Zarqawi yet, I had to grit my teeth," said a Pentagon official, "because I knew we had multiple teams out every single night for years, building intelligence networks, risking their lives, and several times coming close...
...death. For a player profile, it’s practically foolproof. You rattle off the player’s statistics, catalog all their accomplishments, and then, with your reader blinded by the brilliance, denounce it all as mere numbers. You say digits can’t convey true grit, or heart, or the journey taken to the top. You declare that you have to know the person, have to talk to their teammates, coach, family, have to know things numbers can’t convey. Records are all well and good, but they don’t tell the whole...