Word: gutted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...point that the U.S. cannot turn back to 1890. Best translation: Ike intends to stick by his Modern Republican guns, but he does not intend to turn them on the other wing of his party ("Our job," explained a top ranker in the National Committee, "is to bust a gut to elect every Republican who gets nominated...
...Francisco Lawyer George T. Davis was in a gut-wracking hurry. He glanced at his wristwatch: 8:50 a.m. In 70 minutes Burton W. Abbott, 29, found guilty of murdering a teen-aged girl, would die in San Quentin's gas chamber. Davis waited tensely for the U.S. Court of Appeals to grant a stay of execution based on his claim that Abbott had not received due process of law. Then the answer came: appeal denied...
Even before he began the Vasaloppet (Vasa Run), Sweden's gut-racking cross-country skiing championship, Farmer Gunnar Larsson had good reason to feel discouraged. He had tried the 50-mile grind in eight previous races and never finished better than fourth. Now he was 35, and the long trail that led from Sälen, near the Norwegian border, to the small town of Mora, deep in the picturesque province of Dalecarlia, looked tougher than ever. Weather on the course veered from dim to foul. At the starting line, mist lay heavy over the hilltops, and skis...
...excessive and ridiculous antipathy against the Social Relations Department and its concentrators by members of other departments, especially the humanities, is certainly in part a defensive romanticization of the values and motives of these fields, but it is a reaction in part rationalized by calling Social Relations a "gut." It is true that the field has not attracted predominantly high caliber students in the past...
...higher standards for concentration. The change for honors candidates requiring six full courses, including a graduate course, will certainly decrease the number of concentrators in the field and send some of the less serious students back to other fields such as English and Government, previously regarded as the "gut" fields...