Word: guts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...know it's not a gut--how's that?" he responds. "That particular criticism may bother me, but there's not much I can do about it. If people perceive a reading load with fewer pieces of literature but where I try to insist on having that read carefully and really mastered, if they perceive that as a gut, fine...
...where he has purposely kept the quantity of reading down in the hope that students will use the extra time for a careful analysis of the texts. But he says he is aware that some students have misinterpreted the weight of the workload and labeled the course a "gut...
Last year, Nagy shocked a number of gut seekers by announcing paper assignments during the introductory lecture. The immediate result, he recalls, was that "about 200 people didn't show up the next time, which is not what I intended. I was more surprised than anybody...
...areas has altered the President's thinking. Referring to one powerful image broadcast a week ago, an aide says: "That picture of the baby with arms burnt had more impact on him than 50 position papers." An Administration aide attaches even more importance to the President's gut-level reactions. "Reagan," he says, "gets 50% of his foreign policy from Dan Rather...
...traditional response is, of course, that a criminal shouldn't go free just because the constable blundered. But Dershowitz's ancedotal style of argument weakens that argument's gut appeal. He tells of successfully defending Sheldon Siegel, a boyhood acquaintance who had been indirectly linked to a Jewish Defense League bombing in New York. Dershowitz acknowledges Siegel's complicity. But, observes, the government tricked Siegel into confessing. It destroyed tapes crucial to Siegel's case and reneged on its promise of legal immunity. As a result, attorney Dershowitz fought to exclude any evidence that had resulted from Siegel's coerced...