Word: gutting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interest was reflected in the diminishing lines of volunteer blood donors. It was also shown by the apathy of Congress. The Senate obviously felt that it could spend three months splitting hairs over the troops-to-Europe bill; in the House a coalition of Representatives meanwhile was trying to gut the Pentagon's long-range manpower bill...
They were joined by a third wounded G.I. "I don't know his name," the corporal said. "He was a headquarters man. He had a gut wound, and wanted water all the time. He was always crawling out of the hut to get water. We knew he was going to die. He lasted four days...
...recent graduates of the juvenile delinquent class who are shunned by professional crooks. since London Bobbies don't carry guns, old George soon finds himself face to face with the young gangsters and can do nothing but walk slowly towards them and take two slugs in the gut. Old George dies. Then the chase is on. The C.I.D. (Criminal Investigation Division) starts a slow but methodical chase. the killer is finally cornered at a dog track and captured by none other than young Andy...
...there on, the film drags in Flirtation Walk, the honor system, the show-must-go-on, a pretentious cantata celebrating the Academy and such production-number props as the U.S. flag. Through it all, breathing hard and never able to obey the cadets' admonitions to "suck in that gut," Cagney struts, mugs and rampages with the embarrassing insistence of a pugnacious drunk whom no one quite dares to lead to the door. For its best moments, The West Point Story depends on talented Dancer Gene Nelson and the pleasant voices of Gordon MacRae and Doris Day in some tuneful...
...Leonidowitch Althausen suggested an answer: the human body can readjust itself, and learn to function almost normally, with anything more than two feet of jejunum plus the duodenum. Estonian-born Dr. Althausen had previously described a case in which a woman was left with only 18 inches of vital gut she died of malnutrition after three years. Now in Gastroenterology, Dr. Althausen and three colleagues described two cases in which, with but little more small intestine the patients were living normally...