Word: instinctive
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...Pentagon funds compose only a small fraction of University research. Harvard, for instance, only receives about $4 million, a small portion of the more than $100 million the entire federal government doles out here. But the quest for censorship in this area is indicative of the general Administration instinct concerning information--to suppress...
...nice logician's view of how to present a case," says Montgomery of the Government Department. "He knows what kind of evidence should be marshalled, and he has an instinct for a nicely paced argument...
...President "has a wide streak of the authoritarian instinct," Sevareid continued, citing the proposal of lie detector tests and censorship agreements for federal employees...
When she saw the suspect, Covello recalled, "I screamed and started to run. It was almost like I started to run from instinct...
Rovere has a caricaturist's instinct for the grotesqueries of stump and smoke-choked room, of presidential campaigns, congressional hearings ("Nothing that Washington has to offer comes closer to theater") and state visits. He is at Nikita Khrushchev's elbow when the Soviet leader praises the bleak industrial landscape of the New Jersey Turnpike as a symbol of American dynamism; with Bess and Harry Truman as the couple, in bathrobes, bid good night from the back of their campaign train to an impromptu crowd of fellow ordinary Americans. Rovere's political analyses-about the Truman Administration...