Word: gutted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inseparability of the prosecution's argument from the gut issue of abortion was highlighted by the testimony of William Mecklenburg a Minneapolis obstetrician associated with the right-to-life movement. Mecklenburg attacked Edelin for what he called bad medical practice in the hysterotomy operation because the procedure is "extremely dangerous" to the unborn child. But abortion is meant to be dangerous-to-unborn children. Mecklenburg's testimony underscored something that became clearer and clearer as the trial went on: that the Commonwealth's case rested on a moral presumption that was not part of the law, the presumption that abortion...
...lovely as a thoroughbred or a racing shell. The acrid Manhattan air filled her nostrils and traveled down her gut until she was infused with gritty candor. "I guess I come off looking like a lightweight," said Model Margaux Hemingway, 19, implausibly, and turned to display a 6-ft. frame. Four months ago, Ernest Hemingway's granddaughter left the family's split-level in Ketchurn, Idaho. One night when she was feeling good and funny and true, she revealed that she had been conceived after her parents had put away a bottle of Chateau Margaux, the kind...
...Enjoy. You took this as a gut, remember...
...MUST WOMEN feel pretentious, deceitful, when they say they go to Harvard? They attend classes at Harvard, live at Harvard, graduate from Harvard, so why this farce about Radcliffe? Merger and the Harvard-Radcliffe relationship mean much more than grants and fellowships and equal scholarship money: Merger is a gut issue of exclusion, prejudice, inequality and the blatant unfairness that is Radcliffe. But the other side of merger is the sellout of feminine interests, institutional suicide, putting women under the control of the blatant sexism that is Harvard...
Although women may debate the practical results of merger, their passionate disagreement about the issue arises from different perceptions of the two institutions, a gut reaction over which one arouses greater distrust: Radcliffe, laden with 100 years of unrealized potential, or Harvard, with a record of 300 years of discrimination and indifference to women. Women agree that they have a long haul ahead before they'll be fully accepted into Harvard and into society as a whole; they disagree over whether they should rest their hopes with Harvard or with Radcliffe...