Word: guts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This is one of the major reasons academicians here do not feel quite comfortable with the Report. They deal with this in different ways. "These are gut issues, I don't know why scholarship should be involved. It wouldn't be worth reading if it had been written by historians," said Maurice D. Kilbridge, professor of Business Administration, who teaches a course on urban problems...
...advocates of the recruiting plan argue, the Ed School also stands to gain from an influx of disadvantaged students. Minority group students bring with them a gut comprehension of the problems of their communities, and the Ed School cannot hope to function effectively in its urban training or research until it has the benefit of their perspective...
...Gut Decision. The carnage of Tet demonstrated to each side its own weaknesses and its adversary's strengths. With the U.S. public becoming ever more weary of war, Johnson began to talk in private of "forcing the pace" toward the settlement that has frustratingly eluded him. As his decision not to seek re-election hardened, so did his determination to make one more peace effort and to make it soon. It was, said a White House aide, Johnson's "gut decision," and it was his alone...
Warner was the last of the old-style movie moguls - the wily pioneers like Goldwyn, Mayer and Cohn - who ruled their lots like caliphs, buying stars like steers, firing directors as easily as office boys, and selecting scripts by gut instinct. And the power vacuum they left behind is being filled by men with polished fingernails and vocabularies to match. The arrival of the newcomers may not guarantee a Celluloid City renaissance. But it has already generated a measurable optimism...
...almost chemically into a facade which distracts from and undercuts the basic confict, ultimately vanishing with great speed and leaving the conflict solved. The effect is that of an unforgivably mixed metaphor which on second glance--and, therefore, also on the glance of the subconscious--reduces itself to a gut consistency. Hence satisfaction...