Word: guts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a year of tightening their collective gut, Harvard students "look more like men standing up there," according to the instructors that have been doing the tightening. Norman Fradd, assistant director of physical education, and his gleaming knights of the bicep are satisfied with results so far, and most of them are impressed with the spirit they get from their classes...
...version of the yarn tells of a cowboy named Rot-Gut Pete who fell victim to a giant flycatcher plant in Arizona. Searchers for him found only a watch, 42 boot nails, 11 buttons, a six-shooter, a belt buckle and two silver dollars...
...drained from torpedoes; for muscle retractors (to hold the incision open), bent tablespoons. Oversize rubber gloves encumbered Lipes. After cutting through layers of muscle, he took 20 minutes to find the appendix. "I think I've got it," Lipes finally whispered. "It's curled around the blind gut. . . . More flashlights, another battle lantern...
...With the near-dictatorial powers he had wangled from a supine Legislature, he arbitrarily raised schoolteachers' salaries 25% (added cost: $3,500,000 annually). No one begrudged the teachers the raise; but most knew that Gene did not act out of altruistic motives. In a further attempt to gut the State Treasury he put 40,000 additional old-age pensioners on the rolls (cost: $1,600,000 annually); only a taxpayer's injunction suit stopped him from buying $1,600,000 of unneeded textbooks...
...sake of expectant posterity, especially that Soc. major of 2043 writing his thesis on those quaint old days when, even during a war, people had time to sit solemnly around listening to men twang cat-gut, blow straws, and thump on pigskin, it might be well to take leave of my sporadic incumbency of this post by letting off a little steam re music criticism and the state of music in general...