Word: gutted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Much of the current discussion rests on two inconsistent assumptions. (1)Entering students are more mature and better prepared than they used to be (I agree.) (2). Once here they will slide through gut distribution courses, unless confronted with a fairly rigid core of general education requirements. (I don't believe...
...Prickly Pear. Moursund is an all-round man in the best Texas tradition. He controls a local bank. He can survey land, brand cattle, ride a horse through prickly pear cactus, steer his Lincoln Continental through cedar brush in pursuit of game, drop a deer with unerring aim, then gut and skin the animal. To the Judge ranching is more of a pleasure than a source of income. Explains an associate: "He gets a real kick out of manipulating cattle from one pasture to another." He also enjoys food in quantity. When he speaks of a "couple of hamburgers...
...with French cuffs was back driving his Cadillac to his salmon-pink summer house on a bluff overlooking Lake Ontario. Behind him were two months of exhausting campaigning, a 6,000 mile trail that had led him into 148 cities in 40 states. William Edward Miller, 50, the bantam gut-fighter who had been put on the ticket "because he drives Lyndon Johnson nuts," had come home to roost, and not a day too soon to suit him. "The British have the right idea," he said. Presidential election campaigns have become "too long, too expensive, too arduous and too boring...
...opposed repealing capital punishment, reforming the tax structure, curbing the Governor's Council, and reorganizing the transit authority. What good Peabody did, he did without, and usually against, Bellotti's influence. The sheer opportunism of the Democratic candidate is astounding and inexcusable. Though he may secretly be a "gut liberal," the record does not justify electing him to find...
...each campaign stop the GOP "Volpe--An Experienced Governor." candidate hammers away at the two "gut" issues of experience and clean government. Bellotti's first office is his present one, the Lieutenant-Governorship, while Volpe has served as Commissioner of Public Works "scandal-free years," he says), Federal Highway Administrator, and of course, Governor. He also boasts years of administrative experience as president of the large building firm he founded, the John A. Volpe Construction Company...