Word: gutting
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...silently in my back row seat and observed my fellow students chuckling and cracking jokes, I thought to myself: don't be so smug. Remember, when it comes to an election, or for that matter to a social movement, economic theory will always lose to the gut reaction. William E. Pike...
...hope. After the long, bumpy and very public selection process last year that ended with the appointment of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, he told a roomful of his aides, "That just goes to show that if you give me enough time to make me feel great down here," -- holding his gut -- "it will work out." Breyer, who probably didn't feel too great the last time the President chose a court nominee his way, surely feels much better this time...
...first few springs after the accident; they say there is no link between the five-year-old spill and what is happening now. Not surprisingly, this is not a popular position in Cordova. The culprit, most fishermen readily agree, is the 11 million gal. of oil. "It's a gut-level thing," says Baker. "Yes, there is an effect out there ((from the spill)). The thing that is so telling is that everywhere else in Alaska, there are major runs on fish this spring." And so to court. The fishermen have pinned their hopes for economic survival on the outcome...
...coaches recalled. "What starts the process, really," Nixon later said of his lifelong passion for winning, "are the laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. But if . . . your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance...
Tuesday nights the play list tends to be more melodic but punchy, while Wednesdays are also somewhat more accessible to non-hard-core fans. Thursday nights are characterized as noisier and artier, while on Fridays, Douglas DeMay '94 plays gut-level, hard-core, emotional stuff to a very loyal audience. On Saturday night the Record Hospital becomes "Rhythm 95," and the music changes to a combination of rap, hip hop, dance hall and funk. Sunday nights the station returns to Record Hospital and plays songs that are more closely tied to the punk movement of the late 1970s...