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Word: instinctiveness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...junior, who settled down to mediocre varsity participation after captaining an undefeated freshman team, explained his growing apathy: "I guess I spend too much time thinking how to be a good athlete. Athletes shouldn't think; they should play by instinct...

Author: By Boisfouillet JONES Jr., | Title: THE SENIOR SLUMP: Upperclassmen Fade Away in Athletics | 6/16/1966 | See Source »

...headshake. "Nobody feels he can do anything about it," said a Washingtonian, "so it comes out as a kind of reluctant support." Professional opinion samplers documented the confusion. A survey by social scientists from the University of Chicago and Stanford University found that most Americans still share a visceral instinct that the U.S. should not withdraw. How ever, said Western Pollster Don Muchmore, "there is a complete lack of belief that we can win. People wish we'd never gotten in, but say we've got to continue to help South Viet Nam." The Gallup poll reported that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The People: A Time to Grump | 5/27/1966 | See Source »

...Coventry, who according to legend agreed to the pleas of his wife-Lady Godiva-that taxes be reduced, but only if she would ride naked through town. In the light of the new British tax hike by a latter-day Harold (Wilson), some Britons may hope that the Godiva instinct is not dead in the breast of her queenly descendant. Elizabeth, after all, is a fine horsewoman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: Royal Revelations | 5/20/1966 | See Source »

...last book was written under a painful burden of arthritis. What kept her going? "My gambler's spirit, my instinct for the game of life." Night after night, often all night, the aging lioness with the mad grey mane and a brow like Beethoven's sat writing under the strong blue light she loved. "Go away slowly, slowly, without tears; forget nothing! Go away adorned, and do not stop on the irresistible way, do not stop for rest except to die. And if you have, to the very end, kept in your hand the friendly hand that guides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Look! | 5/20/1966 | See Source »

Rocky Jarvis, who will play number two against the Bullpups, has shown a killer instinct that fortifies his hard hitting. A 6-1, 6-2, win against Princeton is the closest any opposing freshman has come...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall jr., | Title: Yardling Tennis Team Boasts 5-0 Mark This Year | 5/11/1966 | See Source »

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