Word: guts
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...public had been the preserve of celebrities, but after Angela's Ashes, the memoir was thrown open to anyone, however young or unimportant. The point was no longer to pack a book with facts about your life (studied here, married there) but to produce a narrative, preferably of the gut-wrenching variety (dropped out here, cheated on her there) with which the reader could connect. The literary sensation of 2000 was another memoir by an unknown?this time, an American journalist named Dave Eggers, who hit it big with a recap of his harrowing childhood called A Heartbreaking Work...
...another study out of the University of Washington, doctors found that women who filled 25 or more prescriptions for antibiotics over a 17-year period developed breast cancer at twice the rate of those who didn't take the drugs. Researchers suspect that antibiotics may reduce the activity of gut microbes that normally protect against cancerous agents. Or the drugs may promote an inflammatory process that triggers tumor growth...
...junior, Grumet-Morris saw Harvard fritter away a three-goal, third-period lead over the Black Bears in absolutely gut-wrenching fashion. He amassed 41 saves in the loss...
...gut feeling is that the variety of potentials is so great that most people will not do anything,” he says...
Despite many professors’ “gut reaction” against the new term, some say their opinions are not set in stone...