Kofi Annan will be remembered for the way he drew attention, over and over again, to the plight of those caught up in war, environmental disaster, or simply grinding poverty.
Iraq may have been a blood-drenched disaster and Afghanistan a grinding military and political failure.
Haiti is often known for its grinding poverty, brutal oppression and natural disasters but the biggest exhibition of its art ever staged in the UK aims to provide more of a balance.
Hunger currently afflicts 830 million people around the world because of natural disasters, armed conflict and a grinding poverty that consigns the poor to chronic malnutrition, the United Nations World Food Program reported today.
With nearly 45 per cent of the country's population under the age of 18, children are among those most affected by the grinding poverty, high food prices and now a substantial natural disaster striking the country.
It was 1937, the year of the Hindenburg disaster and disappearance of Amelia Earhart, and the world was grinding toward its second World War.
Although it has been bumped off the nation's front pages by other disasters (like the upcoming presidential election), the ponderous wheels of justice are slowly grinding their way along in the toxic water crisis in Flint, Michigan.
You saw justice, grinding, grinding, grinding.
