Word: instinctive
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...elephant tusks carved into totems. Jackson is nervous, wary. He talks very gently. I get the sense that he is used to trying to protect himself. He seems to think that people are out to get him, and they probably are. He is not sophisticated, but he is canny. Instinct is definitely the light in his eyes...
...decisions more independently of centralized control. He has given indications that he wants to pursue Andropov's campaign for greater discipline and efficiency. The former leader had cracked down on absenteeism and drunkenness on the shop floor and on corruption in government ministries. But Chernenko is a conservative by instinct, with more experience in carrying out than in initiating policies. Says French Sovietologist Hélène Carrère d'Encausse: "He might adopt the themes of the anticorruption campaign, but he will keep the debate ideological and will avoid making waves...
...entertainer could by now sell a song to the deaf; she commands the audience like a lion tamer with a whip snap in her walk; and, by the forces of magnetism and sheer will, she eats co-stars for breakfast. Thus it is partly noblesse oblige and partly the instinct for survival that keeps Liza Minnelli (Angel), the bigger box-office attraction, out of Chita's way. Minnelli steps to center stage only to belt out three or four of Kander and Ebb's snazzier songs, while the rest of The Rink skates along on the momentum...
Yale also benefited from several crucial officiating calls. The icewomen figured they would be so far ahead that refereeing blunders would not have decided the outcome Without the killer instinct, though, the Crimson paid the price. In the second period, Crimson Captain Diane Hurley and right wing Kelly Landry broke down the ice on a two-on-one. The puck rebounded off freshman goalie Kathy Brady and trailing center Kathy Carroll's shot went just inside the left corner of the net. The puck squirted under Brady's glove and over the goal line...
President Reagan called Schwab's death "a great tragedy." Said Secretary of State George Shultz: "It is unacceptable for one country to fire into another at people and end up killing someone." Still, Shultz declared that the U.S. had no "plan or instinct" to retaliate militarily. Explained a White House aide: "No one wants to convert this incident into a Tonkin Gulf affair...