Word: gutted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gut issue of the 16th century. Modern social historians, eager to prove that the Protestant Reformation was a social upheaval portending the birth of industrial civilization, too often forget that in a deeper sense it was a spiritual earthquake that violently reorganized the religious basis of human beings in the Western world. To read this book is to experience that earthquake. First published in 1563, while the temblors of terror were still rolling across Europe, The Actes and Monuments of the Latter Perilous Dayes was the work of John Foxe, an industrious Anglican divine who described two centuries of Protestant...
They were not without the ambiguities inevitable in the delicate and maddeningly complex problems of a war that is as political as it is military. But taken together, they spelled out in total clarity the gut issue in Viet Nam: that North Viet Nam must stop its aggressions on and subversion of South Viet Nam. The U.S. asked no more-but would accept no less...
...Gut. It may have to ferment all the faster these days, now that the Cleveland Plain Dealer is closing the circulation gap-370,499 for the Plain Dealer to 370,759 for the Press. As a morning paper, the Plain Dealer has a built-in advantage over the afternoon Press with its tougher distribution problems. And on top of that, the Plain Dealer has been picking up spark from Publisher Tom Vail, 39, who is running some stinging and effective exposes and crisp editorials. Vail has hired 33 new editorial staffers in the past year alone...
...rose to become chief editorial writer. He plans no major changes at the Press, and staffers welcome him. Says one: "He's a fast, lucid writer, a shirtsleeves editor, a heavy smoker, a good drinker and an excellent companion. He can see right into the gut of any situation...
...Joseph's College of Philadelphia to maintain its position as the most underrated basketball school in the U.S. Not that St. Joe's doesn't try. A small (enrollment: 1,719) Jesuit liberal arts college, it conducts no high-powered recruiting campaign, schedules no gut courses for athletes, and employs a lecturer in education as head coach. Considering also that all but one of the players on the St. Joe's varsity come from Pennsylvania, and that the average height of the squad is a mere 6 ft. 3 in., the Hawks...