Word: gutted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Labor could balk in many ways. At a minimum, Meany could refuse to appoint the labor members of any tripartite wage-price review board or labor advisers to any other Government board. That would gut any attempt by Nixon to put across his wage-price policy politically as one that had the consent of both labor and management. At the extreme, the labor movement could support a test-case strike by some union demanding a larger pay raise than the review board deemed justified. The Government would then have a choice of buying peace by overruling its own board...
...erodes our confidence in ourselves." Once more, Nixon was handling a crisis, and he seemed to be enjoying it all hugely. Observes TIME Washington Bureau Chief Hugh Sidey: "Nixon clings to what is familiar until the last moment. Then, when the evidence overwhelms him or something happens in his gut, he decides to act, and nothing stands very long in his way. He abandons his philosophy, his promises, his speeches, his friends, his counselors. He marches out of one life into a new world without any apologies or glancing back...
Repeat Defense. In the six-week retrial just ended, the gut issue was the claim of unconsciousness, despite new testimony for the prosecution that as Newton was being driven to the hospital for treatment, he waved a pistol and boasted of "shooting two dudes." Defense Attorney Charles R. Garry produced two doctors who testified that a man in a state of shock, as he could be from abdominal wounds, might not know what he was doing. Mrs. Henderson says she was swayed by this evidence...
...Maltese employed at the base would immediately lose their jobs. That is a blow the poor and crowded (pop. 320,000) country could hardly sustain. Last week, when Mintoff canceled the Sixth Fleet visit, there was sorrow among the island's shopkeepers and the girls of "The Gut," the red-light district. According to one estimate, Malta lost $360,000 by keeping the sailors away...
...bound to affect the mood of both the country and Congress, adding some velocity to the antiwar tides. The Senate showed growing impatience with the Administration's Viet Nam disengagement policies and was in a mood for strong action. By virtue of only one vote, hawks were able to gut an amendment to the draft extension bill that would have cut off all funds for U.S. military operations in Indochina within nine months. The Senate then went on to pass with ease, 57 to 42, a bill proposed by Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield that urged the President to withdraw...