Word: slog
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...liner has long exemplified the anarchy that is the Parisian orchestra. Symphonic life in Paris has almost always been a laughing matter for the rest of the world. Underfinanced, undertalented and underrehearsed, the city's three major, privately backed, week-to-week orchestras (Lamoureux, Colonne and Pasdeloup) slog through their Sunday afternoon old-hat concerts with all the esprit de corpse of Napoleon's army after Moscow. Parisian conservatories turn out some of the best instrumentalists in the world, but they have very little incentive to remain at home. Arturo Toscanini once remarked that France could have...
...unfortunate when the innocent suffer, but I have seen the idiots in short pants slog through the marshes in Glacier Park to photograph a moose's eyeballs (the moose is about as nasty and unpredictable as the grizzly). I have seen them literally load bears into their cars in Yellowstone. It's stupid disrespect for nature and it's gettting worse. I can't blame the bears for mistaking people for garbage; it's sometimes hard for me to tell the difference...
Backyard Beginnings. The birder must be physically fit to slog through swamps, intellectually alert to recognize the innumerable species he might encounter, keen enough to thrill at the sight of a great blue heron overhead. But what gets him started in the first place? "We began watching birds in our backyard," explains Seismologist James Ellis. "Then we didn't recognize a bird, so we bought a cheap book. Then there were more birds, so we bought a more expensive book. It kind of grabs you after a while." It grabbed San Francisco's Raymond Higgs so hard that...
...advocate of overwhelming firepower and the shock value of mass attack, Abrams will take to the battle an unalloyed respect for the men he will soon command. After his most recent slog through the boonies of South Viet Nam, he said: "You can't go out there and talk with the soldiers and officers without coming away inspired...
Even as they slog through the lave pits of childhood and adolescence, most youths are forming some vision of what shape the cooled adult crust will take, how high the peaks will soar. For their models, they look to their fathers, older brothers, a teacher, a figure plunked from history-an Alexander or a Gehrig, a Shaw or a Morgan, a Renoir or a Luciano. for Raoul Levy, born of a Russian-Jewish family in Antwerp, educated there and at the London School of Economics, an R.A.F. veteran of World War II, there never seems to have been much doubt...