Word: gutted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although President Nixon has not yet provided that needed leadership, his aides insist that he will speak out when the time seems right. "He's waiting for this fever to cool a little bit," explains one assistant. "It is suggested that he doesn't have any gut sympathy with the civil rights cause. That may be true, but the gut thing can get you into an awful lot of trouble. This may be the time for reflection and figuring out the next move rather than a time of breast-beating or recrimination. When we start going backward massively...
...hurting at gut level, if you know what I mean," said another speaker, a middle-aged Negro woman. She predicted cheerfully that dissolving her emotional problems "layer by layer" would probably take a lifetime. From a reformed alcoholic, the conventioneers drew vicarious inspiration. "I was an old man at 16," he said, "and now I feel like a kid. It's sure swell to see a whole bunch of kooks like us get together. It's a miracle...
...eight. On a four-minute variation leading in to "Chest Fever," his sheer talent on the organ and his vast knowledge of popular and classical music poured forth. Manuel went from piano to drums on "This Wheel's on Fire" and "When You Awake," while Helm played rhythm and gut-string guitar, Danko, on bass, was never off as his lightning fingers rambled...
...Wrestlers who have to diet during wrestling usually gorge themselves during the off-season. Abbott is no exception. "I came back from summer vacation with a big beer gut. and coach Lee tried to get me on Gablinger's beer. a low-carbohydrate beer. hoping that I would lose weight. I did lose some weight but he still worries that I drink too much beer," Abbott said...
...Last Fall, Epps rejected ten per cent of the independent study applications in an attempt to "firm up" the program-which, he said, too many students considered the "all-time gut...