Word: gutted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dismay over the decaying state of the environment is fast replacing peace as the gut issue among the nation's young. Underground newspapers that once denounced the Viet Nam War are now aiming their vitriol at the auto. Students are demonstrating to ban everything from pesticides to offshore oil wells. Well versed by now in the techniques of protest, they are even turning to the courts for help. A group of Washington law students recently brought legal action to force the capital's transit authority to muzzle the fumes from its diesel buses...
...back the reclining passenger seat (a standard feature on the 1970 Volvo), put my feet up on the dashboard, and turned to L. A.'s psychedelic station on the FM radio. I closed my eyes and listened to Al Kooper's guitar, clasping my hands on my well-packed gut and thinking about the bargain I'd won that...