Word: gritting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rises. Wrote Nazi Correspondent Hermann Niekamp from the Crimea: "Tracer bullets light the night. Machine guns suddenly stop. . . . Then ghostlike figures come darting. A hand grenade falls close by, then another and another. The German soldiers in the trenches know death is only a few yards away and grit their teeth...
Williamsport, Pa. Grit also will go tabloid at year's end. A flamboyant, copiously illustrated country weekly that goes to some 580,000 readers in & near 16,000 small U.S. towns, Grit has been informing and entertaining rural America for 61 years. Its formula: a summary of the week's news, plenty of almanackish data, homemaking hints, news and features about Hollywood, radio and sports...
...lead in The Cat and the Canary, Paramount Producer Arthur Hornblow talked to Hope like a Dutch uncle, told him he'd do anything for a laugh-gore another actor, bolt clean out of character. Hope began, fumed Hornblow, by making audiences grin, ended by making them grit their teeth. The Cat and the Canary clicked: since then Hope has whizzed through many another comedy thriller (The Ghost Breakers, My Favorite Blonde, They Got Me Covered), strutted down the Road to Singapore, Zanzibar, Morocco...
...Chicken Grit. In Rochelle, Georgia, J. B. Standridge reported that his chickens had finally learned how to keep from being abducted by owls, who used to nudge them off their perches, then grab them on the wing. The chickens gritted their gums, held fast, let the owls nudge away till they gave...
With the same grit and crude determination that resulted in last October's Comeford to Lyle miracle at the expense of another Tiger team, Earl Brown's rags-to-riches quintet never stopped fighting, running, scrambling. Not until they had shown their Nassau "superiors" who was boss under the backboard, and out in the keyhole, where the pivot and jump shots of Burditt, Dean Hennessey, Hugh Hyde, and George Dillon put Princeton's pot-shooters to shame. shame...