Word: gutting
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...have ever struggled with a difficult decision - new job vs. new boyfriend, sports car vs. minivan, read the book vs. see the movie - you have likely also been offered a heap of decision-making wisdom. Make a list of pros and cons. Go with your gut. Sleep...
...asked for a favor. "Please tell me I had a bad dream," he requested. Unfortunately, Katerina Emmons, an Olympic shooter from the Czech Republic who won the first gold medal of the Beijing Games, couldn't comply. The disaster was all too real. A bullet was stuck in his gut...
...just means you can feel things beyond normal sensing. Everyone has this ability to a certain extent; other people call it a gut feeling. For those people, something "just tells you to do this." But for me, it's not some thing - it's someone. I never refer to this as a power because I don't like to put myself on a pedestal. I prefer to say that I have an ability that's more fine-tuned...
...crowd in the eighth inning, I glanced up and noticed a zero on the scoreboard. Boston starting pitcher Jon Lester was working on a no-hitter, and I knew what was to come—the Sox would not let me leave town without one last shot to the gut. As my camera’s battery wore down (no-hitters are something to be remembered, Sox or not), and we prepared for the crush that awaited us at the Green Line station, I was struck by the awful truth that I had spent four years trying to deny...
...Like many foreigners, on my first trip to China in 1999 my gut reaction to the one-child mandate was revulsion, aggravated by stories of forced sterilizations, baby girls left abandoned because parents wanted a son for their only child, or state-mandated abortions. Now, as a father-to-be, I cannot imagine a government telling me to have no more kids, or forcing my wife and me to get rid of a new, additional baby. And as I grow older, I take ever greater comfort from having a sibling - my sister...