Word: instinct
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...point at which shivering ceased, nature fought the situation; my instinct was to be up and about, an effort of will was necessary to remain the subject of the experiment; after that point I gladly acquiesced, initiative had gone...
...proceed. I've been asked what I think of American football. Well, I'll be frank. When I saw about 40 hunched and helmeted figures charge out on the field my first instinct was to fly. They all looked like an Australian desperado named Ned Kelly. This gentleman was a bush ranger (first cousin to a gangster), who, in the last century, acquired a coat of chain mail, made himself a helmet out of a kerosene tin, and terrified the Australian bush by daring feats of robbery and violence...
...Harvard, on the other hand, this tendency to bow to convention and unreasoning College opinion does not exist. Harvard feels that at least where indulgence of the 'play instinct' is concerned, the individual should be given ample opportunity, instruction, and facilities, but that he should make his own decisions as to the manner and extent to which he shall avail himself of them...
...swapped for a chairmanship for Sir Christopher. This sort of thing is often tolerated in cases where the swapper is an ordinary politician; but, the report released by the Prime Minister declared: "We think the whole course of proceedings shows, on the part of Bullock, a lack of that instinct and perception from which is derived a sure guide by which the conduct of Civil Servants should be regulated...
...opinion of his closest associates, lively little Publisher Howard relinquished the Scripps-Howard high command not that he might further indulge his instinct for finding and timing news, but rather to permit him to concentrate more attention on the World-Telegram...