Word: guts
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Captain Hook,” Walsh said when asked who would supplement senior Kenon Ronz, sophomore Mike Morgalis and freshman Matt Brunnig this weekend in Providence. “I’ll go with my gut feeling, bring guys in for a couple of innings and go from there...
...Washington would lie empty. But an American official who has been privately doubtful of the Administration's commitment to the peace process now echoes this view. "I'm convinced the President will lay his own political life on the line for it," says this official. "When I do the gut check...
...squads moved steadily northeast through the city. When they reached an intersection, with both squads on the ground, Sergeant Brown pivoted left and saw a man holding two RPGs. "I popped two rounds at him, and I see the impact in his chest and gut. He reached down, grabbed one RPG, and it goes off and blows his foot off. It ricochets off and comes straight at us. We cross over the intersection, and that's when I saw Larry Brown get hit." Behind Sergeant Brown, Specialist Brown had reached the junction and was met with a short burst...
...feel it percolating in your gut as the guy behind the deli counter serves someone who has waited less time than you. It rises to form a knot of bile as you scamper after a bus that left 10 seconds too soon. It chokes you as your boss--say, an editor at the magazine you've slaved at for years--cuts your perfect movie review in half, adds lame jokes...and then, to compound the injury, sends you out to get her coffee, at that same rotten deli...
Friends say the deal is "vintage Haim"--referring to the man's renowned eye for value, negotiating skills and colorful Yiddish shtick. "Bubeleh, let's make a deal; I feel it in my kishke," he'll say, referring to his gut. The assets were being auctioned off by the bankrupt German firm KirchMedia, which failed after owner Leo Kirch overexpanded into pay TV and sports programming. Saban was a dark horse, competing against global media giants like Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. But by early this year, Saban had talked his way into Germany's insular media community and, with...