Word: gritting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...thing is clear though: Moore’s individual efforts are exemplary, his grit unquestioned and his game continuing to develop...
...hopes not. One can only hope that a couple of the scouts who have seen him throw in recent weeks realize that there’s always a place for a hard-throwing lefty with his grit and resolve and class. One hopes that the moment before the last out is recorded—regardless of the score—and the promise it holds are still available...
Hendricks (2-1) tossed the first eight innings of the Crimson’s 3-1 win, allowing one run on seven hits. He showed power (11 strikeouts), control (one walk) and grit (one hit allowed with runners in scoring position...
...steeling the public." While Iraqi officials gloated that the invaders did not have the stomach to bear the casualties inflicted on their forces, a different phenomenon unfolded in the war rooms in Washington, London and Qatar and in the coalition foxholes and camps scattered across the Iraqi desert; the grit of battle and the prospect of losses to come seemed to produce even more clear-eyed determination among the military leaders to finish the job. After a ceremony for fallen servicemen at his headquarters in Doha, Qatar, last Friday, Central Command Chief General Tommy Franks gathered his staff and tersely...
...country songs and a female lead, Jenn Colella, with a fetching country voice that breaks in all the right places. The problems are a star, Matt Cavanaugh, who replaces Travolta's misunderstood-teen insouciance with white-bread Broadway blandness, and a book that scrubs out most of the grit and subtlety of the movie. In another Broadway season, "Urban Cowboy" might have had just enough firepower to survive. But with too many other, better musicals ("Hairspray", "Movin' Out", "The Producers") vying for theatergoer dollars, an inoffensive show like "Urban Cowboy" is probably headed for the last roundup...