Word: guts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...acting career, but have been with him throughout his hard-fought climb from the bottom up, from Minnesqta attorney general to senator to vice president. Just to cite a few telling examples: Mondale was one of the sponsors of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, whose intent Reagan tried to gut early on in his Administration. He helped to create the Leagal Services Corporation, whose job of providing legal aid to the poor Reagan tried to eliminate. And at a time when it was unpopular, the early 1970s, Mondale chaired a Senated committee that pushed for new aid for school desegregation...
Norman Lear hired Borowitz for CBS after the producer met him his senior year at a Lampoon function. "I think it was a gut reaction," said Borowitz of Lear's job offer...
Before I became a Harvard student, one of my best friends, already a student here, told me that the hardest thing about this place had nothing to do with exams or roommates or even Harvard-style, gut-wrenching, hair-tearing love affairs...
...standard four point scale. Straight A's from Harvard undergraduates are virtually unheard of, Geraghty notes. The average undergraduate GPA at the Law School is 3.5, but courses receive almost as much scrutiny as grades in the admissions process. Geraghty studies the transcripts to weed out the gut-seekers from the achievers, and she says she's familiar with the course offerings at 20 to 30 schools...
...Piano-jumping, speaker-climbing stunts onstage, along with dancing that was camp enough to get anyone busted in a back alley. Songs that sounded like nonsense (Tutti Frutti, Long Tall Sally, Slippin 'and Slidin ') but whose beat seemed to hint of unearthly pleasures centered somewhere between the gut and the gutter. Ooh! My soul...