Word: instinctive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wadsworth bill would compel all boys reaching the age of 18 to submit to one year of military training before they reach 20. The purpose of this legislation is to forestall the very strong instinct for disarmament after the war, which, if undertaken too soon or too suddenly would render the United States unable to back up its collective security with force if it is needed...
Keep your power to receive everything; only learn to select what your instinct tells you is right...
...will put an end to the onerous tedium of making a living. . . . The idea women have that life is marshmallows which will come as a gift . . . has defeated half the husbands in America. ... It is as responsible for the absurdity of keeping up with the Joneses as the bare instinct toward conformity. ... It long ago became associated with the notion that the bearing of children was such an unnatural and hideous ordeal that the mere act entitled women to respite from all other physical and social responsibility...
...conflict between duty-to-comrades-and-country (herd instinct) and the instinct for self-preservation may disturb even a well-balanced, man in battle. Under stress, he may suffer from intestinal disturbances and disordered heart rate. A man with poor mental balance may develop hysterical blindness, paralysis, stiff joints, which will genuinely disqualify him as a fighter (hysteria rarely occurs in newly wounded men-presumably because real wounds eliminate them from battle). Another common type of war breakdown is the hallucinatory reliving of terrifying scenes. A psychopath may quit fighting, give way to panic, or commit suicide. Still other...
Last Hope. For the land at which Miss Martineau stared was not merely a country but one of the last best hopes of the world and by some British instinct of freedom she knew it. Europe was a prison and a charnel house. This was the land on which all men's dreams of freedom had come to rest. It was one of the last unoccupied lands in the world. This land had fought for and established a revolutionary principle-political liberty. If that succeeded, the world's weary history of successive tyrannies would change. If it failed...