Word: instinctiveness
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...breadth of a Churchill's, a Truman's, or an Eisenhower's. Eden has seldom strayed beyond the polished confines of Westminster and Whitehall, and his public sense does not derive from an easy personal acquaintance with the common man. Far more, it is an inbred instinct, the product of Eden's membership in that unique class of Englishmen who are bred to rule...
...they are not. Earle Fdgriton's Morell loses every element of the minister's character which should make him attractive. Shaw's version is genuinely hearty and morally scrubbed, perhaps more a man of instinct than thought, but his are good, deep instincts. Instead, Fdgerton is posing and sniveling. In a role which demands naturalness above all, he is always artificial, or worse, sanctimonious and prim...
...Oxford is a neat, small, coherent, and stale crew. Their form has commanded plaudits from all sides, but their speed and racing Instinct is highly dubious. By English standards Cambridge has a large crew, by three pounds the heaviest ever to row in the Boat Race. We are certainly not as smooth, but have far more power and vigour...
...best of New England's instinct forecasters Elisha R. Bitgood, of Hope Valley, R.I. completely condemned this year's spring. "Cold and wet," the 75-year-old farmer predicted, "with some snippy-snappy days...
...their anxiety to give away other people's property for the sake of peace, neither Eden nor the British Laborites mentioned another offshore island-Hong Kong. With a shrewd instinct for exploiting U.S.-British differences and for gobbling up one goody at a time, the Chinese Communists have not mentioned it either, though the Chinese claim to Hong Kong is geographically and historically better than their claim to Formosa. Ironically, the firmest official British pronouncement on Hong Kong was made in 1949 by Clement Attlee's Labor Government. "Britain," said the spokesman defiantly, "intended to stand fast...