Word: gutting
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...always thought there had to be something wrong with me because I wasn't exclusively interested in a life of suburban luxury . . . The first night I came to a rap group I had this suddenly close feeling because I found out other people had the same feelings about gut issues that I did." Adds another: "It's not just you alone fighting your mother and father and all those engagement announcements she sends every week" (the message is all too clear ?why isn't she getting married...
...shaped microbes that multiply in the intestine and thrive in contaminated water supplies. The bug responsible for the present pandemic, a strain first identified in 1906 at the Tor quarantine station in Egypt, is prolific and can quickly cause death if not treated promptly. It multiplies rapidly in the gut, producing millions of offspring in a matter of hours. The bacteria trigger a devastating diarrhea that can drain off as much as 15% of the body fluids in eight hours, depleting the body of water and essential salts. This depletion can be deadly. Lack of bicarbonate turns the blood more...
...professionals, she found, were a ludicrously earnest lot. "I come across as a human being," one of them soberly assured her. Their jargon was tiresome-they were always "resonating," "actualizing," "peaking," or having "gut reactions"-and their cult of the body seemed prejudicial to a girl who had always been more at home in her head...
...lost hope of the survival of even a spark of political courage in Washington. No longer. My one gut reaction is, it's about goddam time! Let us work for peace in the only way possible: by defeating and containing aggression against helpless nations. Some of us do this by serving here in Viet Nam. The rest of America must do it by vociferously drowning out the anti-Americans and petty despots of the fanatic left fringes, and providing backbone for our misled legislators...
Their goal was ambitious: to extend the language of jazz even farther than the progressives and, at the same time, restore its old freewheeling gut-blues intensity. Drawing on African primitivism, Mediterranean and Asian folk music, and sounding at times like Viennese atonalists, the new jazzmen vary tonal centers, when they are used at all, as often as they do moods. Basic rhythms, unavoidable before, are often merely implied or forgotten entirely now. But as Ornette Coleman says, "When it's done with taste and love, hardly anybody wouldn't like...