Word: instinctiveness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first, the Administration's instinct was to treat De Gaulle on a tit-for-tat basis, trading insult for insult, injury for injury. That instinct was quickly and wisely restrained...
...stone weapons, and in an open mouth often appear menacing. Even the way a person sits in a chair may reveal whether he is, at heart, gripping a throne or a horse or another human being.' Canetti has small patience for those who think man's basic instinct is self-preservation. Man is not a "statue," writes Canetti, "with one hand reaching for food and with the other fending off its enemies. His way of procuring his prey is cunning, bloodthirsty and strenuous. He does not mildly defend himself but attacks his enemies as he senses them...
Diversionary Actions. Just now the Union Minière is not producing any copper; its installations at Elisabethville and Jadotville, now under U.N. control, have been temporarily damaged, and its Kolwezi facilities are occupied by the Katanga gendarmerie. But with its usual instinct for survival, the company has labored to appease both sides. At the big Jadotville copper and cobalt plant, Union Minière officials thwarted the "scorched earth" tactics of Tshombe's men by directing them to relatively easily replaceable facilities which were damaged with much fanfare. Shortly later, the same officials, many of whom had long...
Probably no British government, faced with such momentous and obdurate problems, could have had an easy time of it. Macmillan has found it particularly difficult, the Economist suggested last week, because by instinct and intellect he is more enthused by "sepia illustrations of great moments in British history" than by the unique opportunity that has been offered his nation to help unite Europe and to serve as its bridge to the rest of the free world. Instead, Harold Macmillan for the past six years has chosen to emphasize Britain's "special relationship" with...
Miss Mead turned to the question of "the relationship of war to man's aggressive impulses" and concluded that "modern warfare is not a hypertrophy of aggression, but a hypertrophy of idealism. The natural, self-less instinct of men to protect women and children" is at the core of this idealism, she said...