Word: instinctive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night, for 96 tense hours, Lieut. Davies and his squad burrowed. No excitement of active combat, no military ends, no instinct to destroy the enemy urged them as they grubbed 27 feet into the wet, sandy soil. They were in constant expectation of a blinding, icy flash of death. As they dug, a gas main caught fire and began to broil the bomb. Twice on the way up the bomb slipped its tackles and fell to the bottom of the hole...
...pessimism of professionals sprang from simple instinct. They had not wanted Willkie in the beginning. But for nine weeks they had tried to show him loyalty, proffer their service and support, make suggestions, consult. Some of them had been waved in & out of Colorado Springs for a smile, a handshake, a drink. Many -like William ("Bill") Ditter, chairman of the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee-had never been consulted at all. Others-like Henry Fletcher, the Republicans' general counsel, who had gone to Colorado Springs with a 14-page legalistic essay on how the G. O. P. could get around...
...GOPoliticians were not crepehanging for the pleasure of it. Their instinct told them that something was lacking in the Republican campaign. Nine weeks after nomination Willkie had done very little about setting up the kind of political organization they understood. Politicians who have learned their trade from the bottom up know that elections are won in the wards and precincts, that sweating ward heelers have to get out the voters, that district leaders have to get the ward heelers to work, and somebody has to stir up the district leaders to go about...
...Chairman White democracy was not only legislative forms and procedures : "In every human heart are two conflicting forces, the altruistic urge and the egoistic instinct . . . the yearning to give and the desire to get. . . . [If] in any human unit, be it home or community . . . men are more kindly, decent, and reasonable than mean . . . then that human unit, large or small, is democratic. . . . But if . . . [it] is greedy, if it is suspicious of everything without and credulous of everything with in . . . turns to force to hold its place and win its way, then that social order . . . must turn to a tyrant...
...Saints supports Mama Garcia in preserving her Pedro's self-respect, her large brood's health and virtue. Pedro lacks Faith, succumbs to relief, gin, a jalopy. So Concha leaves him, tries alone to support her niños by toil, Faith and scheming. Primitive instinct at last leads her back to Pedro for reconciliation...