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Unlike African-Americans, Latinos have no racial ax to grind and so can act as the "builders of bridges" between blacks and whites.
Grind (1000) early attained its modern definition, to `rub against or to work into,' but by 1400 its anatomical meaning--a `lower abdominal quadrant'--had given way to groin , our modern usage.
Excellent reviews for this doorstop-sized biography on the legendary financier: "a magnificent, insightful study" (Maury Klein, the Wall Street Journal ). Reviewers are impressed by Strouse's extensive research, which turned up a truckload of new details on Morgan's life and, more importantly, by the balanced portrait that she provides of a man whose biographies have to date been colored by vindictive accounts from contemporaries with axes to grind.
There is still more action if you head west to Es Jonquet, once the fishermen’s quarter, now full of bars, cafés, and clubs clustering under the old windmills which used to grind the city’s flour.
He's a grind.