Word: instinctiveness
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...accepted. Because of his lack of power, he has been stripped of human dignity. Even steel wears out: many Negroes are tired of being subservient. I have been taught to turn the other cheek, and I definitely believe in this philosophy. However, many Negroes are adhering to the natural instinct of man to retaliate before being mutilated...
...Juan Terry Trippe, 67, one of the true pioneers of U.S. commercial aviation, remains very much in charge, partly because he is wise enough to delegate more and more responsibility to younger men, partly because he has lost none of his instinct for money-making innovations. Trippe was the first to order the 490-passenger Boeing 747 -some $525 million worth-for delivery starting in 1969. But even Trippe can have problems. The most notable: Pan Am flies the rest of the way around the world, but, by Government edict, its planes cannot take customers across...
...kill another that nature never bothered to develop an instinctual safeguard against homicide. Then all at once, with the aid of his powerful brain, man discovered weapons; and with the aid of weapons a creature created for flight was abruptly transformed into a creature equipped to attack. Unprohibited by instinct, man more and more effectively attacked members of his own species. At the start of the early Stone Age (500,000 B.C.), war and the hunt became his exclusive occupations, and for about 40,000 years thereafter the warrior virtues of aggression and cunning were intensively bred into his bones...
...junior, who settled down to mediocre varsity participation after captaining an undefeated freshman team, explained his growing apathy: "I guess I spend too much time thinking how to be a good athlete. Athletes shouldn't think; they should play by instinct...
...headshake. "Nobody feels he can do anything about it," said a Washingtonian, "so it comes out as a kind of reluctant support." Professional opinion samplers documented the confusion. A survey by social scientists from the University of Chicago and Stanford University found that most Americans still share a visceral instinct that the U.S. should not withdraw. How ever, said Western Pollster Don Muchmore, "there is a complete lack of belief that we can win. People wish we'd never gotten in, but say we've got to continue to help South Viet Nam." The Gallup poll reported that...