Word: instinctiveness
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With the proliferation of postwar suburbs, which sucked millions of families out of the cities, downtowns quickly lost their old pizazz. Then the redevelopment binge of the '50s and '60s came disastrously close to indulging the American antiurban instinct to the point of no return. Political pressure to build new housing for the inner-city poor was intense. Urban renewal, a well-intended and wrongheaded federal mission, in those days meant tearing down quirky, densely interwoven neighborhoods of 19th and early 20th century low-rise buildings and putting up expensive, charmless clots of high-rises. Or, even worse, leaving empty...
...increasingly busy hospital out of their garden in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, have launched a $1.8 million expansion drive, funded in part by a popular adopt-a-hedgehog program. A portion of the money will be used for rooms to keep the patients separated. In a triumph of instinct over infirmity, recuperating male hedgehogs tend to treat the wards like honeymoon suites...
...excellent field presence," Restic said. "He knows where those people are. When you break the pattern--this is the tough part for the quarterback--he starts to scramble. But Yohe knows where the people are going to go. It's instinct...
...stories are about ball carriers, a sequence of unbelievable runners, all of them wearing No. 44. "Jim Brown, Ernie Davis, Floyd Little," he says with a snap in his voice, though his own number now is 78. "They never knew what they did. They just did it. Perfect instincts. Larry Csonka's instinct was to drop his shoulder and run over you. That worked too." Because Csonka started as a lineman, he never wore 44. Joe Morris was offered the number around 1980 but declined. A large part of Syracuse was declining...
...week to throw out a first ball at the World Series, something to do with their being Polish. Musial was and is a natural. When Missouri first heard that a Polish Cardinal had been elected Pope, most folks presumed it was Stan. But the selection of Drabowsky showed an instinct befitting the best baseball town in America, an affection for October strangers...