Word: instinctively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...voracious instinct for opportunity. He hired out to plow the eroded red soil with oxen, sold peaches to passengers on the Illinois Central's cars, wangled a job as a printer's devil. When he was 16 he left home, headed for the rich black Delta lands downriver, became a bookkeeper in a country store at Lula, Miss. In 1892, at 17, he went to Memphis...
...better recognize the toughness of Canadian-U.S. ties. Britain must "conduct her affairs so that Canada will never have to make the choice between . . . the United Kingdom and . . . the United States." Canada is under the influence of American thought and ideas, but she is still essentially British in instinct. Britain's job, said Malcolm MacDonald is to keep Canada that...
...safety broke loose, ran back into the blazing barn and perished. After generations of being groomed and cared for by man, horses feel that their stalls are the best and safest place in an emergency. They don't know what fire is and have little or no wild instinct left to warn them against...
...from preventing aggression, the League had been unable as early as 1923 even to define it. Against Italy its only weapon, economic sanctions, had proved impotent in 1935. And in 1938, a comical figure instinct with tragedy, Haile Selassie, the Conquering Lion of Judah, stood before the Council at Geneva and heard his country voted a fair Italian conquest. From then on, death for the League was only a matter of creeping paralysis...
...fully as great as those of upper classmen, sliding along smoothly in their scholastic grooves. All that remains, then, is the misassumption that veterans, like non-veteran Freshmen, need an added stimulus to find recreation and meet people. Months of community living have removed all vestiges of the hermit instinct from most ex-service men. They know how to go about meeting other men and making new friends. Compulsion will not work here; nor will it work to make exercise recreation to those who don't already consider it as such...