Word: instinctiveness
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Current formations are so arranged that a lineman following blind instinct will be trapped and pushed out of the play. A defensive line must learn in advance how to cope with these situations. That is where Maras steps in--to acquaint the Harvard defense with the techniques required. In this department, Maras' professional playing career and his apparently inexhaustible patience are his greatest assets...
...times the previous year. The team's record didn't improve much in 1950--one victory and seven losses--but the rebuilding process was under way. During this period, Schmitt probed among the junior varsity linemen, seeking players who had what he looks for in a lineman: some football instinct, much patience and a lot of heart. That search netted two players, Joe Shaw and Cy Thompson. Many techniques of line play must be learned by rote, and Thompson and Shaw were willing to devote the time and the effort, Schmitt says. They contributed heavily to the varsity's much...
...second-Communism-claims man to be an animal creature of the state, curses him for his stubborn instinct for independence, governs with a tyranny that makes its subjects wither away...
...jump out of the window. His soul jumped out instead. He leaned forward. Utterance of some sort there must be. Had Eaton satire only lent him utterance, he might have said "when you call him, that, smile." Had Eaton ire only lent him utterance, he was. But neither instinct came alone; instead ire and satire met in one grand incandescence; and voicing this potent compound, as only Eaton can, he rasped forth the cry of Kent in one long lingering lung--"OH RINEHART...
Although he told newsmen after his election as manager that he was "politically inexperienced," he showed that he possessed quite a bit of political intuition or at least political instinct. He salved one of the major irritations produced by his predecessor: the lack of laison between manager and council. With fond memories of his tutoring school days, he told the councillors that he would gladly devote as much time as necessary toward informing them about everything in the city administration and simultaneously he warned the heads of the different city departments not to become wary or frightened by his prying...