Word: instinctiveness
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...much better off than most of the people of my generation," remembers Sevcenko, speaking from his book-lined Widener study. "You have to have had a certain amount of luck and instinct for survival to survive through those years--even in a relatively sheltered existence...
...student locker search cases, the schools cases wobble on particularly shaky ground. As the New Jersey court noted, found. "For four years, a student's locker is his home away from home." The administrators in New Jersey may have had a good instinct as their illegally seized evidence shows, but students still retain their rights. Again, the court. "He [the administrator] had, at best, a good hunch. No doubt hunches would unearth more evidence of crime on the persons of students or citizens as a whole. But more is needed to sustain a search." In effect, searching a student...
...they could find no complaints against Saxon and his firm, Bullion Reserve of North America. It had headquarters in Los Angeles and offices in Dallas and Hong Kong. No one in gold trading in New York seemed to know Saxon well, but his company was paying its bills. On instinct, Abrams' men asked Richard Arfa, a vice president of Bullion Reserve, to produce financial records. Arfa stalled and questioned Abrams'jurisdiction in the case...
David Rabe's war play Streamers takes place in a kind of boot camp on the border of national psychosis. Here boredom sinks into despair; high spirits become hysterics; the killer instinct can flare with switchblade speed. Set in 1965, Streamers was written soon after the 1975 fall of Sai gon, and Rabe's dialogue glows with the white heat of hindsight. His four young draftees are doomed from the start, either by their blithe ignorance of the horror to come or by their premonition...
When she came to the United States a little more than a year ago from Warsaw, the new transfer student had to suppress the instinct to always carry her I.D. in case she was stopped and had to overcome a fear of speaking on the telephone, she says. She still looked around to see if anyone was listening to her conversations whenever she ate out at restaurants...