Word: guts
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Americans traveling abroad this year exhibit a sense of confidence, and not just because of the dollar's new strength. An improving economy and the Reagan Administration's promised tax cuts have helped to foster optimism. "It's only a gut feeling," declared Etta Brackman, who is vacationing in Greece, "but since the hostages came back from Iran I think we have recovered our pride as a nation...
...course, another retrograde idea was dusted off and heralded as the next great undergraduate breakthrough--and in 1975, 30 years after Conant's committee had prepared the Red Book, the Core was formulated. When Dean Rosovsky's committee came to the conclusion that Gen Ed had degenerated into a gut-filled abyss, it formulated a plan which divided knowledge into not three but five general areas of study; Literature and Arts, Historical Study, Social Analysis and Moral Reasoning, Science, and Foreign Cultures. By the time it is fully implemented for the class of 1986, each student will have to take...
...near the very end, she announces that she is going to do a number that she had to "grow into." And once again she begins, "Don't know why, there's no sun up in the sky." But this is a different Stormy Weather, sung from the gut and the soul, as if she had not only grown into it but out of it. The message is clear: it has taken a lot of doing, and a lot of stormy weather along the way, but Lena Horne has finally grown into being Lena Horne. -By Gerald Clarke
...have the feeling in the gut of my stomach that this kind of action cannot be tolerated in my community...We have to figure out how to handle police officers who think nothing of coming into communities and shooting it up," she said...
Said Sir James: "I've been a grocer for most of my life. In the grocery business, if you send out a batch of poisonous food, you have to recall it. Poisoning the brain is the same as poisoning the gut...