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clover mill - In a history of Emmitbury, Md., James Hellman wrote, “The Hartman mill was built by Dr. Robert Annan [1765-1827] for a clover mill afterwards converted into a grist.”
It's been months since the last revelations about the unsolved murder of beauty-pageant champion JonBenet Ramsey, yet the 6-year-old's death continues to provide grist for the tabloids, op-ed columnists, TV talk shows, and the 30-some Web sites that follow the case.
Business stories were less about balance sheets than about egos and and pride and failures and triumphs and all the other things that are the grist of good non-fiction writing.
Congressional hearings delight the commentariat as a reliable source of grist, and the pundits did not care for Sen.
A lot of the latter might be grist for the status quo.)