Word: gutted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Answer." Last week all those and many more tons of gifts were on their way to U.S. soldiers in Viet Nam for Christmas. Hundreds of thousands of Americans, it seemed, had responded to the same gut reaction that moved Virginia Beach, Va., Housewife Betty McKenzie, co-chairman of a gift-collecting group that came up with 8,440 shoe boxes full of socks, tobacco, razor blades and candy. Said she: "It was our answer to draft-card burners, beatniks and anti-Viet Nam demonstrators...
Plasma to Gut. At the Naval Medical Research Unit No. 2 ("Namru-2") in Taipei, Dr. Robert Allan Phillips, the world's most famed cholera fighter, has pursued his interest in the disease since 1955. An important development was his theory that the diarrhea results from a disturbance of what doctors call "the sodium pump." Normally, Dr. Phillips explains, sodium salts and other electrolytes pass in both directions from the inside of the bowel into the blood plasma, and vice versa; and in healthy people the movement is greater from the gut to the plasma. In cholera, the proportions...
...shows is over 75% ? "Native arrogance," admits Leonard. A rival producer at Ashley-Famous Artists takes a tougher view: "Leonard doesn't think. That's why he's successful. He's like those gangsters he used to play. What he likes in his gut the public likes in their guts-or else. He has the primitive instincts of a clever ape. On television, that's worth more than a crystal ball...
...Bosch-like rendering of the pit. By the end of the siege, only three of Plei Me's dozen Special Forces men were unwounded and on their feet. But the Americans were all ready to fight some more. "Are you a tiger, Swanson?" a doctor asked a gut-shot trooper at the hospital in nearby Danang. The man grinned weakly...
...what may or may not be a straight flush. The pot runs to thousands, but this game means more than money. The Man is Lancey Howard, undisputed king of stud poker for more than 30 years, and he knows that the crusty young challenger across the baize means to gut...