Word: gutting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proceedings was a study released by Atlanta's Centers for Disease Control, which concluded that soldiers exposed to Agent Orange had no greater risk of having babies with birth defects than did the general population. Said Woody Willis, head of the Nam Vets of Georgia organization: "My gut reaction is that they're trying to sell us down the river like they have in the past...
...competition. The contrast is sharp and fascinating. The best parallel in sport may be to skiing. Springboard diving, like slalom racing, requires great agility and tuning as the diver catches the flex of the board and rides it for maximum spring. Platform diving is like downhill racing, a dangerous, gut-sucking plunge that seems insane to onlookers and sometimes to participants. The concrete platform, of course, does not bounce. It just stands there, 10 meters (33 ft., or three stories) in the air. The drop Blocks perilous...
...gut course. It's a good course," Kaplan said this week from California. "The course is probably the most popular course on the Stanford campus...
According to students at Stanford, Kaplan is one of the most popular professors at the West Coast university, though they do say that Kaplan's course, if not a gut, is one of the easier courses in the Stanford catalogue...
...majority of the people employed organizations to question voters are women, and men may hesitate to express unfavorable opinions of a woman candidate to them. In- deed, Mondale's aides admit that their belief that a woman vice-presi- dential candidate will help the ticket is based on gut feelings rather than any statistical evidence...