Word: instinctive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite his strength and bat speed, Carew completely avoids the modern hitter's greatest weakness: the instinct to pull the pitch on the shortest line to the nearest fence. The lust for the long ball and the glory of homers has contributed as much to the decline in high-average hitters in the post-World War II era as the oft-cited rise of relief pitching. Trying to cream a fastball low and away is a sure way to strike...
...withdrawal. A piercing cry invariably and understandably follows. The pregnancy cycle is brisk in tempo. A litter conceived in February is born in April and reared by July, with the mother all ready for another go. It will surprise some readers to find that cats do not kill by instinct and initially do not know that rodents and birds are tasty fare. Hunting is learned behavior. When a cat wanders in with an animal in its mouth, and begins batting it around the living room floor, it is not asking for approval. The cat is simply treating the human family...
Finally it becomes instinct. There are probably less than five people here who can read a compass, but they know every tree in these woods. So drawled Guard Bill Garrison, 45, last week as he described to TIME Correspondent George Taber how the Tennessee mountain men at Brushy Mountain prison flushed out and captured James Earl Ray in less than 2½% days...
...color of the brush-a fresh break has almost no discoloration, but an older break is brownish. Garrison can also determine if a convict has a partner traveling with him by noting that a twig has been bent back or broken shoulder-high. "There's almost an instinct for the first person to push the branch back, so it doesn't hit the second guy in the face." Another sure sign that his quarry is a criminal and not a hunter, according to Garrison, is whether the person has entered the high grass: "No one but someone...
...scent again. Surprisingly, a runaway's best defense is dry weather, which can often blend all local smells together, making them indistinguishable to a hound. Thus when thunderstorms hit the Cumberlands last week after a dry spell, Don Daugherty knew by his old mountaineer's instinct that Ray's hours of freedom were coming to an end. "Rain washes out the forest," he says, "and makes all scents new and tracking a lot easier." But, admits Sammy Joe Chapman, "for a 49-year-old man who didn't know the mountains, James Earl Ray really didn...