Word: instinctiveness
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...makings of a superb football team: good runners and a sound defense. Brown felt the crush last week, and unless Harvard goes all out, that six hour trip home could seem considerably longer. On the record, Harvard should be a heavy favorite by as much as 24-6. By instinct, I would pick Princeton. With prayer, however, I call a seventh straight victory for our eleven...
...specials and part-time sports buff, decided to take the question to the nearest modern oracle: a computer. He asked 250 boxing writers and other ring experts to rate famous pugilists on a scale of 58 variables, ranging from the standard (speed, cutability, punching power) to the subtle (killer instinct, ring generalship, courage). With the help of a few experts, he studied shadowy old films and yellowed newspaper clippings of fights to determine the number and kinds of punches each boxer threw. Then he reduced the field to the 16 top-rated heavyweights, from bare-knuckled John L. Sullivan...
Neal's greatest talents are quickness, speed, and a great deal of football instinct. He is not a big line-backer at 6'1" and 200 pounds, but he craves contact. "I get tremendous satisfaction from really sticking some guy well," he said...
Kiddie Lit. Specifically, IRDBNGMD is about 17-year-old Jeremy Wolf's decision to enter antiwar work. Should he break the law by refusing to register for the draft? Lacking the true instinct for martyrdom, he decides to become a draft counselor and turns his house into "an underground station on the freedom road to Canada." His dad-having feared the worst-is much relieved...
...finishes by apologizing for the outburst, explaining, "I've just been itching to get my hands on this microphone for a long time now," as if someone had been preventing him. As it turns out, however, it is only his instinct for the public emotional jugular that has held him back. He spends the rest of the afternoon wandering from caucus to caucus, speaking whenever he wants to at whatever mike is nearest, obviously enjoying his frequent conversations with women in the audience...