Word: instinctiveness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Coldly Clinical. Faas has seen more combat than any other foreigner in Viet Nam. He has an uncanny instinct for finding out where the action is and getting there fast. His intelligence network, say admirers, can be second only to that of the Viet Cong. He works so hard that he is miles ahead of the competition. He is coldly clinical about his grisly work, but then he has to be. "Otherwise," says a reporter, "with what he sees every day, he'd go right out of his mind...
...leader, leap 20 ft. out of the water-higher than any marlin. Enraged by the hook, makos have been known to yank luckless fishermen overboard or jump straight into a boat, tear the place apart, then leap back into the water to fight for another two hours. Their killer instinct lingers even after death. At Ocean City, Md., not long ago, a tourist walked past the corpse of a mako lying on the dock, carelessly brushing its head with his foot. Ka-chung! With a sudden muscle spasm, the dead mako sank its fangs into the passerby...
...plot of From Russia With Love is based on Bond's gaming instinct. The chief of an underworld organization called SPECTRE calculates that the carrot of a secret Russian decoding machine along with a sensuous blond would be more than 007 could resist. By eliminating his enemies for him, SPECTRE attempts to build his confidence in his own luck until he finally overplays his hand. But they fail to consider that James Bond is that special kind of gambler, he always wins...
...finally, does it happen that ordinary people are able to communicate at all, since each speaks his own language? "It's simply one of the inexplicable peculiarities of the coarse empiricism of the masses...a paradox, a nonsense, one of the aberrations of human nature, it's instinct...
...majority leader's position but withdrew when it became obvious that he would be beaten by Carl Albert. Realizing that he would no longer occupy a favored position with the establishment, Bolling turned more unreservedly to reform and the DSG. This was a reflection either of luck or an instinct for power that originally led Bolling into Rayburn's inner group, for reform and liberalism are becoming more powerful and fashionable--the DSG now has over 100 members...