Word: gutting
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...billion until the end of the month; the Senate Appropriations Committee has yet to consider it, and the cuts made by the Senate could be rejected by the House. But it seemed unlikely - despite the few close calls - that the military's critics would be able to gut the Pentagon budget after last week's unexpectedly strong show of force...
...effete and growingly-decadent intellectual community, which brought the reality of teach tourneys and slapshots to university masses, ennervating and vitalizing bland and sterile intellectual pursuits with a vibrant and brutal vivacity and charm, pumping a living and athletic blood into a skeptical and cynical social atmosphere, fusing the gut response with the intellectual considerations, giving and enlightening more than laboratories and lecture podiums could ever hope to enlighten, bringing the street, the gouge-and-vindicate philosophy of the middle- and lower-class New England street, into the academic world, and holding, hypnotizing, mystifying, and then delighting with pure speed...
...nation to turn its attention from Watergate to other pressing problems. If anyone needed reminding that an all-pervasive mess in the economy is the most urgent trouble, it probably was the President himself. To millions of Americans, that mess is the issue, burrowing beneath politics to the gut-level question of what a family can afford to buy for its next meal...
...became a tournament tennis player and traveled the national circuit for nine years. But the feeling of impotence and submission vis-a-vis the world breeds a guilt for any form of success achieved in that world. I would go to bed each night with a knot in my gut, sick with the pressure of having to sin the next day. Winning itself was rarely more than a breath-catcher en route to new pressures and more anxiety. I had wrought winning into an ultimatum whose fulfillment made me guilty not just because the life style put a premium...
...town now, when one reaches a conclusion it is wise to retrace the ground and look for another meaning. The President's statement could be an alluringly deceptive decoy in a preliminary skirmish that may become a brutal battle for his survival. Richard Nixon has always been a gut fighter. His "secrecy" speech to the P.O.W.s last week was a familiar signal...