Word: gutsing
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Ernest Hemingway's plea for Ezra Pound showed more guts than 20 safaris into the blackest jungles of Africa. The plea also demonstrated a real sense of decency . . .
David C. (for Curtis) Stephenson, 62, onetime Grand Dragon of Indiana's Ku Klux Klan, who used to regard the state as his own feudal barony, won his freedom from the state parole board. He had spent nearly three decades in prison, where he languished amidst delusions of persecution...
. . . Who but "Jumping Joe" McCarthy? . . . Though I hate him ... I must admit he has finally put some guts-in our Senate . . . by forcing it to condemn him. In his negative way, Joe has done the world more good than the Little Lord Fauntleroys who are horrified by him.
"We have earned a reputation," Iron Mike went on, "for standing by people who need our help. We must show that we are willing to help our friends, even though they may be down. This is a new kind of situation. But it's a test of our guts...
Librettist Joe Darion fairly faithfully followed the saga of archy, described by his creator, the late Columnist Don Marquis, as a sensitive cockroach who had to express himself or die. For archy, writing was even more painful than for most poets: he had to type each letter by diving headfirst...