Word: inborn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...often wondered what makes one athlete better than another. The obvious generalities didn't satisfy him. Hefty, well-muscled specimens usually make better shot-putters than the long, lanky types that might be high jumpers. Good runners usually have large hearts and slow pulses. But are there certain inborn physical characteristics that make one athlete a miler and another a dash man, one athlete a champion-and another an also...
...sprawled and swelled partly because there was a real need for its services-spreading the knowledge and skills that have made the U.S. farmer the most efficient and richest in the world, and strengthening his vital position in the U.S. economy. It grew, too, because of bureaucracy's inborn knack for propagating itself. And it grew because farmers had come to realize that when they stood together, a cohesive one-fifth of the nation's voters, they could manipulate the U.S. Congress and plunge both arms elbow-deep in the vaults under Fort Knox. Lumped together, the representatives...