Word: guts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Throughout his tenure, as Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, says, Bok has made it clear that he is not the kind of person who reacts to issues in a "gut fashion." When Bok is even the least bit hesitant about an issue, he assiduously avoids an answer--like his wife, an expert in medical ethics who once refused comment on the Karen Quinlan case. Bok will talk about touchier issues--such as Black students' frustration--but only if he can do so off the record. Some say Bok is unnecessarily wedded to a script, that...
Marty hummed "Folsom Prison Blues." He toyed with the lights and switches and slung a thumb-size wad into his mouth. "I love doin' this the most," he said, firmly yanking the wheel toward his gut. The jet bucked to a 60-degree angle, pressing me into my seat. "Thirty degrees more and we'll be a rocket-ship, boy," he said, spittle running down through his grin and back across his bulbous cheek...
...drove it to the edge--toward a blue bowl with silver specks)) a cow hand in the Drby whipping a thoroughbred to the line. Sophisticaiton could not repel spirit. Yang rammed a screaming yin across the night sky. He brought into his gut the paragon of rationality and the pride of corporate innovation and technology and regergitated it all over the heavans with an ass slappin' yell. Western, righteous stuff was taking it eastward home to its staid, straight beginnings, sp.tting and yawping...
...with NBC News President William Small. Late that night Jean Rather finally turned to him in their living room. "You were going to make a decision today," she said evenly. "You have 17 minutes left." At long last Rather was ready: "I am going to go with my gut. I'm going to go with...
...illegally or unethically enticed the lawmakers into committing crimes they would normally not have considered? "This smacks of a setup," claimed one leading Democrat in Congress. "A lot of guys feel that the FBI has got it in for this place." But why? No legislator could quite explain this "gut feeling" that, as another Congressman contended...