Word: guts
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...stores had a field day selling salt and shovels. We wanted the blizzard because we wanted the camaraderie of the collective struggle. We also sought the puerile joy of snowball fights and cancelled classes. A monstrous nor'easter has more potential unifying power than the Game. Deep in our gut, we know that fair Harvard could benefit from a little more communitas...
...some gut level, the whole idea of electroshock therapy is absurd. At a time when people with mental illnesses can choose from a pharmacological cornucopia, why would they have electricity run through their brain instead? Didn't electroshock disappear around the same time as three-martini lunches...
...founder of the Westchester Celiac Support Group in New York. By then, diagnosis is very difficult; the telltale antibodies will have disappeared, and the intestinal biopsy may not show anything wrong. You may even have to re-expose yourself to wheat--and get sick again--to prove that your gut instinct was right...
Yuen Wo-ping is known to international audiences as the man behind The Matrix, for which he devised the vertiginous virtual hand combat and flying feats that made the movie a gut as well as a head experience. He has won further acclaim for Crouching Tiger, and he was the one person who could say no to the world-class director making his first action film, which happened on more than one occasion. No wonder: the script would read, "They fight," leaving the overall conception to Lee and the hard work of realizing it to Yuen. "When I'm working...
...With an eighth-grade education, a push-broom mustache and a from-the-gut driving style that earned him the nickname "The Intimidator," Earnhardt was as apt a face as any for a sport whose roots lie with Prohibition-era bootleggers who souped up their cars to outrun fat sheriffs on dusty Dixie roads, and he had a devilish grin to match anything Burt Reynolds flashed in "Smokey and the Bandit...