Word: instinctive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yalta agreements, Big-Power leadership ("They have the votes, don't they?"), The Big-Power veto in the proposed World Security Council seemed logical to him. So did the agreement on Poland, because it recognized the fact that Stalin held the top cards. On trusteeship, this same instinct forgetting the votes count themselves made him side with Churchill and the U.S.' Navy, prefer to let each power run its own show in the Pacific and elsewhere. He felt that Mr. Roosevelt, at Yalta and on other occasions, had been too gentle, too patient and reluctant to exert...
Willingness to kill in defense of one's family, maintained its position of second "favorite" motive, showing that in spite of the psychological pressure on students caused by the war, the instinct to maintain the safety of oneself and one's family remain as the strongest potential actives for killing...
...committed in the same room with the picture, you are not allowed to see red paint sweating forth on the fingers; the camera waits till the crime is complete, then comes back and finds it there. Reverence for literature often goes hand in hand with this singular lack of instinct for cinematic storytelling...
Lieut. Commander Philip Torrey, skipper of the Essex' Air Group 9, was a brave man. But when the target was announced, he later recalled, "My first instinct was to jump overboard." On the first day at Truk, 127 land-based Jap planes were shot down, 77 more were bagged on the ground. On the second day, not one got off the ground. Two of the hardiest myths of the war in the Pacific had been exploded: 1) Truk was not impregnable; 2) in a contest with seaborne planes, land-based air power was no better than its planes...
...Canadiens into promising him a bonus if the club led the National Hockey League at Christmas, another bonus if he was the league's leading scorer at that time. Then he put the deal on ice. With an occasional timely spurt of the old speed, and an aggressive instinct for team play, he fed a stream of passes to linemates Elmer Lach and Maurice Richard, by Christmas had piled up 19 assists and 15 goals. That gave him a one-point, bonus-earning edge over veteran Bill Cowley, the slick stick handler and playmaking ace of the Boston Bruins...