Word: gutting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nearly every industry, of course, can claim some wartime usefulness, no matter how tenuous the thread connecting it with military production. After the President had approved the demands of American watch-makers for increased tariffs, last year, even fertilizer and gut-string factories filed clever rationalizations for protection...
...tank-town prelims, the main events when they got their turns on the big time. Ex-Middleweight Champion Rocky Graziano does even better. In his autobiography, Somebody Up There Likes Me (Simon & Schuster; $3.95), written with the help of Newsman Rowland Barber, Rocky even recalls the eye-gouging, gut-punching details of his childhood street scraps, the first wild rounds of his private bout with the world...
...steadily downward. When he first came, photographers from the newspapers trooped to catch him performing, but he was generally too busy lolling in his tank to pose and finally they left him in peace. Happy lounged around the Zoo for almost three decades before an old family disease, "twisted gut," that killed his mother caught up with him on October...
...hero, who has been framed with a killing, rides into town to clear his name. It is not quite clear why he bothers: his name cleared, he just rides out again. Furthermore, it turns gut that the villain is not even the villain. About that time one of the actors mutters desperately, "Why did all this have to happen...
...professional Harvardman will often pick the University's most esoteric-sounding courses, like Chinese 10, Semitic A, and Slavic 145, just to impress his friends and the people back home. His more realistic brethren usually seek a gut for a fourth course. But to most--those for whom the catalog's offering seems to grow vast as the time remaining in college becomes less and less--the choice of a fourth course is a decision worth a little time and effort...