Word: instinctiveness
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...staring down the empty streets and glancing with a shiver at the grey sky, until the all-clear sounded. Then they trudged back to the day's routine. If nothing else, the test proved that civil defense-even in the nuclear age-is no more obsolete than the instinct of self-preservation...
...revealingly as his masters had. Delineating the mind-heavy brow of G. B. Shaw (opposite), John's brush is icicle-sharp. Gliding across the bosom of the Marchesa Casati (overleaf), it turns feather-soft. He naturally places his technique at the service of his subject matter, and this instinct, which most modern painters scorn, is the first essential of portraiture...
Lessons for Children. Author de Beauvoir is at her brightest and best in describing the sort of exasperation that takes a keen-witted, methodical man when he tries to get the better of a girl who lives stubbornly by whim and base instinct. The more Pierre tries to discipline Xaviere, the more apt she is to turn up at the wrong place at the wrong time, or to keep an appointment for an intellectual talk at a sidewalk cafe loaded down with a bag of shrimp and bananas...
Readers are often moved by a kindly instinct to share TIME and the news it contains with other people. The mail recently brought two examples. The first letter came from Dr. J. Maurice Swain of Cleveland. He enclosed a check with the request that it pay for a subscription to "someone who you believe would most benefit...
...drunkenness known as nitrogen narcosis is a factor of diving physiology. The first stage is a mild anesthesia, a gaseous attack on the central nervous system. It destroys the instinct for life...