Word: guts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just went [to Harvard] on a gut feeling," White says. "I didn't choose a college because of its hockey program. I chose the college that was best...
...Iowa. In the closing weeks, he was the only Democrat projecting clarity and strength. "What really clinched it for Gephardt was the way he presented the message on trade," theorized Arthur Miller, a University of Iowa political scientist. "It was a strong, sharp image coming across, with a gut feeling of patriotism." The Missouri Congressman's trade plan touches on nativist fears, and he rivals the Walter Mondale of 1984 in interest-group pandering. But he was the only Democrat to cut through the deficit doldrums to touch on deeper economic fears. "We are losing our standard of living," Gephardt...
...Phelan's Greatest Game) in Kennedy's Albany trilogy, with its wry poetic naturalism. The bums in Ironweed were not noble, but they had their own gravelly, poignant voices. The family Francis left behind was ordinary as linoleum, but their emptiness left a sympathetic ache in the reader's gut. Francis was drab and cramped on the outside, that husk of a booze-wracked body, but he didn't live there. He came to life inside, with way too many other people -- the loves, enemies and chances he had lost -- in the decaying mansion of his memories. What a lovely...
...power in Washington is absolute. Not so many years ago, when House Republican Leader Charlie Halleck, known as the "gut fighter," became an embarrassment, some young bucks got together and tossed him out. Jerry Ford took...
...known views on any subject, controversial or not. Although he has never read the Constitution, he did pay careful attention to Peter Jennings' three-hour special on ABC. In addition, he's the sort of wacky guy who might make the dour Justice Marshall bust a gut now and then...