Word: gutting
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...through the water as if a shark were snapping at his toes, set a new Olympic record in the 400-meter freestyle, helped his teammates set a world record as they took the 800-meter relay, then came back to whip New York's George Breen in the gut-wrenching 1,500-meter grind...
When a man has butterflies in his stomach, how fast are their wingbeats? Does anger or anxiety have a greater effect on stomach contractions? Medical researchers trying to answer these questions have been hampered by difficulty in observing what goes on inside the gut. Last week a team of U.C.L.A. psychologists studying automatic nervous reactions announced a compact solution to the problem: a plastic-coated magnet no bigger than a small medicine capsule...
...Lionel White, tells the familiar story of a stickup. Led by an ex-convict (Sterling Hayden), six men put the heist on a race track, but even though the tote is $2,000,000, the script fixes things so that crime does not pay. Nevertheless, the plot produces a gut-clenching suspense and plenty of surprises -pulled out of the hat alive and kicking...
Some students industriously select the University's most esoteric-sounding courses to impress their friends and the folks back home. The more realistic usually seek a gut for a fourth course. The green book is full of courses; so, to please both these elements, the CRIMSON takes another plunge into it, this time to look for interesting Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday courses without burdensome prerequisites...
...appear only after making certain that Knight had already accepted an invitation from San Francisco. Sniggered a committee member: "When 'Goodie' found out that the San Francisco dinner wasn't going to be on television and the Los Angeles one was, he almost busted a gut...