Word: instinctiveness
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...hours last week, summer heat and the instinct for direct action, which is inherent in the female mind, raised the very old Ned with telephone service in Gulfport (pop. 22,659), Miss. When the temperature in the telephone company's big switchboard room got to 92°, the 69 young ladies on duty all got up and indignantly walked out. B. D. Northcutt, president of the local telephone union, who is negotiating with the company for air conditioning, hurried over and asked them to go back to work. They told him, in effect, to go jump in the river...
...quickly spotted the weakness inherent in the Pentagon's 950 committees, i.e., their responsibility was spread so thin-through years of contriving to that end-that rarely could a single individual be held accountable for any decision. He had an industrialist's instinct for the fine line where research must stop and production must begin, e.g., in the field of guided-missile development, he found the scientists in top command prone to work a missile to the ultimate stage of perfection before releasing it for production. To remedy these administrative weaknesses, Wilson began pruning out semi-independent committees...
They turned for guidance, as if by instinct, to Assistant Secretary Wilfred McNeil, a handsome, blue-eyed Iowan whose fiscal talents won him a reserve rear admiral's rank during World War II. McNeil was brought in by Forrestal to supervise the defense budget, and had done the job for every Secretary of Defense since. He appealed to Wilson and Kyes because he could talk their language-production phasing, subcontracting, economic units. He was a storehouse of facts & figures about the armed services, and little short of a magician when it came to budgetary techniques...
...Fernandez Islands, 400 miles off the coast of Chile, the scene of the actual story that inspired Defoe. As with Strange Deception, he sees the theme of his next picture as an expression of "how people . . . can reconstruct, outside of existing institutions and helped only by their own moral instinct and by their own experience of good and bad, their own moral life, to solve the main problems of mankind-those of justice and freedom...
...accustomed to the spectacular in politics -Garibaldi and his red-shirted 1,000; the Blackshirts marching on Rome; Palmiro Togliatti's Reds tearing up piazzas. Alcide de Gasperi disdains the theatrical and the violent, speaks softly, listens forbearingly, sits out crises patiently, and acts unhurriedly with an extraordinary instinct for timing...