gumptious

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• It’s a moment when the tables turned, and a health professional was reminded of how difficult it is to get help, once everyday folks get the gumption to ask.

• Miss Manners recognizes that this takes gumption and that is the reason that hosts are expected to save their guests that anxiety by making introductions.

• He negotiated tooth prices with Molly in days-long back-and-forth communication, and she generally won, but only after showing gumption.

• Yes, if you have courage, desire, and gumption to do it, why not?

• Will the underdogs prevail through hard work and gumption or will billionaires turn Wisconsin into their own playground?

• The expression and gumption she sells the number with her eyes is the real magic of Shirley Temple.

• Fashion would lose much of its electricity without the head-snapping magnetism of models moving with gumption down a runway.

• Mitt Romney, who has reverted to the not-a-follicle-out-of-place hairstyle, never really got up the gumption to hit Newt.

• I guess he just stayed there because he happened to light there and didn't have gumption enough to git out.

• This town is God's own country, and there's opportunity for anybody with a pound of energy and an ounce o' gumption.

• "Other one has the gumption," said Sharon, casting a final rain of cigar ash upon the abused rug at his feet.

• Well, she's got more gumption than any one I've seen here so far—seems to take an interest in what she's doing.

• I only wonder that Chicago, with her accredited 'git' and 'gumption,' has not accepted my plan before.