Word: guts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dropped from 230 to 195, dieting," he said, "but just didn't feel comfortable. I didn't have that gut in my way. So I've slowly crept back up." The occasional cruel remarks that tortured Nicklaus, Stadler shrugs off. When he was described as "a carnivorous moose stalking his dinner," his reaction was to say, "Moose aren't carnivorous." In his snug green Masters jacket, Stadler was asked about the changes a major championship would bring in his life. He had been the eighth leading money winner in both...
...protest movement against nuclear arms. If any cause matters. I reasoned it's the cause of keeping life going--Armaggedon means the end of all causes, all hopes, and all of whatever, is valuable. Even so, I questioned my own sincerity: Why am I really getting involved? On a gut level, how much do I care? Why are these posters in my hands? Ultimately I told myself; "action is better than inaction's--I seem to believe in the cause...
...loyally supported Reagan's economic program in what he called "my own best political interests." But as the white-haired lawmaker spent 19 days in the Bethesda National Naval Medical Center undergoing treatment for a chronic back problem, he brooded about his pro-Reagan votes. "I had a gut feeling that I was wrong," he recalls. "I should have paid attention to it. I was as guilty as anyone...
...main struggle of the presidency is being waged with the economic data that pour into the White House. It is also a psychodrama. Reagan's gut tells him that sheer faith will pull the nation through. That cannot be charted...
...this is the heart of the squash season and it is--if stands to reason that the Crimson men's squash team must be playing some of the season's most gut-wrenching squash...