Word: guts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...adults felt they were at least "fairly likely" to buy bullion when it became legal. Projected nationwide, that 18% would translate into 12 million potential customers. Yet the survey found that few of those interested in buying gold stood ready to sell their stocks or gut their savings to invest in the metal. Indeed, 60% of the potential buyers said they would purchase under $500 worth initially. But all the purchases, say Mocatta officials, could total a $4 billion market...
...calendar. We must substantially upgrade editorial content so readers--faculty, students and staff--will take more of this free ("throwaway") publication seriously. [Government and Community Affairs Assistant Robert] Turvene's page on grant news and opportunities will be a help, as may my determination to include stories of "gut" interests to the reader. These stories will include pieces such as these: the probable/possible effects of inflation and near-panic on TIAA and CREF‡ [Dean K.] Whitla's examination of the Houses plus his views on evaluations of faculty by students at Minnesota, in our Business School and (possibly) elsewhere...
...Foreman. "You can't hurt me!" Ali yelled. "You punch like a sissy." Soon it became clear that Ali had constructed a trap. All summer and fall he had been developing granite abdominal muscles with a grueling regimen of calisthenics, spending an hour every morning hardening his gut by doing sit-ups with his legs held up at a 45 degree angle or while his limbs were pumping back and forth in a bicycle-pedaling motion. Now he was simply letting Foreman punch himself out against that iron flesh. "I wanted to make him shoot his best shots," said...
Students are most interested in preparing for professions like law, medicine and architecture. Claims Senior Judy Wandzilak, 21, of Boston University: "The gut [easy] course is no longer avidly sought. Students can't afford to waste their time and money. They are seeking tangible, not spiritual returns for their investment in a university...
Richard Nixon served as Dwight Eisenhower's "goodwill ambassador," visiting 54 countries, and was the Administration's partisan gut fighter, traveling the "low road" during campaigns. (Nixon, as President, assigned that job to Spiro Agnew.) But when Ike was asked in 1960, "What major decisions has your Vice President participated in?" he replied: "If you give me a week, I might think of one." John Kennedy tried, at least initially, to employ Lyndon Johnson effectively. Kennedy saw to it that Johnson presided over National Security Council meetings, appointed him to head the President's Committee on Equal...