Word: instinctiveness
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...women clothes hoarders, the New York Dress Institute last week suggested an awful punishment: "The inevitable cycle of change in fashion will mercilessly expose any woman with the grab instinct, leaving her high and dry with old-fashioned clothes, making her look foolish next year and out of step with smarter and more sensible women...
...million would not only get there and buy an armload of curios, but all would get back home on time, by a national instinct for large plans and desperate maneuvering...
Concludes Schmidt: "The people of Czechoslovakia today stand as prisoners in a Communist camp. Their sense of national identity and honor, their sense of the value of political freedom and their revulsion against alien rule is strong. But not so strong as the instinct for individual self-preservation ... On the whole, their position is about what it was under the Nazis...
...that moment, Charles Franklin Brannan stepped from behind his potted fern. Those who know Brannan as a sincere and honest man, comparatively unsullied by the politician's instinct, swear that it was coincidence; those who know politics call it fine timing. Anyway, in Charlie's hand was the Brannan Plan. It was rigged with something for the consumer as well as the farmer. The plan would guarantee farmers a tremendous, slightly varying total income each year (about $26 billion-or its equivalent in purchasing power). Brannan's Plan had a lot of hooks...
...keeping their films off TV, standing guard over their vast wealth of story properties, forbidding their stars to appear in the new medium and buying up the most promising talent on TV. Cagily, they have begun to use TV to plug their pictures. The cinemoguls insist that the gregarious instinct will keep people herding together in theaters, regardless of the lure in the living room. They also point out that the cinema can offer Technicolor and airconditioning, and they are pushing work on another come-on: three-dimensional movies...