Word: gutting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year-old health-care law was touted last year during the Dukakis presidential campaign as the first of its king in the nation, but advocates say the House changes would gut the bill...
...just as the Soviets are trying to bury Stalinism, and the Chinese Maoism. Probably the hardest thing for us is going to be the understanding and feeling -- because it doesn't live in the American mind so much as it lives under the American skin, deep in the American gut -- that somehow the U.S. is morally superior to every other country in the world. This innocence about our misdeeds, not understanding that we've been accomplices in the very evils we profess to abhor, that's got to be buried...
Last year the Harvard women's lacrosse team earned a gut-wrenching win against the University of New Hampshire, scoring the winning goal in the last two minutes of the game...
...Gregor Samsa, the world ceases to be predictable or rational; natural and moral order disappear. Critics have found in Kafka's vision hints of everything from the Holocaust to AIDS. But to burden the story with greater weight is in fact to lessen it. The thump in the gut comes from the literal details. The man who used to hurry to work now scuttles beneath the bed; the fastidious fellow who loved milk now detests "the fresher foods" and slurps deafeningly over anything decayed. When he agonizes with wounds inflicted by members of his family, they cannot bear to touch...
...problem with this loophole is that it provided a tremendous incentive for unscrupulous institutions to cheat. High schools were under pressure to give academically deficient athletes a C average so they would be eligible for athletic scholarships. Dishonest colleges could make partial qualifiers eligible by enrolling them in gut courses. So Proposition 48 only hurt the schools that were honest enough not to take advantage...