Word: instinctiveness
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...Strike? By last week McCarthy, a plunger by instinct, knew that he was facing the gamble of a political lifetime. Much of the nominally Republican press in his own state was beginning to take another look at McCarthy's own reputation, as long as reputations were being discussed. There was a lot to talk about: his destruction of public records in a case he had tried as circuit judge (and which he had dismissed for the curious reason that the applicable law was due to expire six months later); his granting to two cronies of quickie divorces; his failure...
...trade has to take into account factors which are liable to continuous fluctuations: the relationship between supply & demand, the needs of the consumer, local peculiarities and climatic conditions. I should say that a man who is planning trade must-in order to assess these factors accurately-possess a creative instinct, a kind of commercial intuition...
When the sun was shining outdoors and Demuth turned his lapidary instinct on the poppies, cyclamen and zinnias in his mother's garden, or the fruits and vegetables for her kitchen, the results were sparkling. He had the knack of putting flowers into many-faceted, highly polished pictures without seeming to disarrange their leaves and petals. The driest of artists, he knew how to keep the bloom on a peach or the dew on a blossom. His talent had never been robust; the fact that his best works were evocations of things so elusive and so close to perfection...
...Hicks, proprietor of a barbershop on South Audubon Road, Indianapolis, summed up for his customers: "I don't think the public understands it. That's why they don't talk much about it." The "it" was certainly hard to understand, and so men talked of the instinct of survival, of the stern obligation of democracy to protect and preserve itself, and, hopefully, of the possibility that the H-bomb might actually preserve the peace. Negative Promise. "The question that must engage us, caught up as we are in this atomic rat race, is whether the effort which...
McCarthy, a gambler by instinct, gives no sign of doubt. He still lives like a burning roman candle; in times of stress or excitement he goes without sleep or food, drinks steadily for days on end without a tremor of unsteadiness. Even in normal period he often awakens, apparently fresh, after only a few hours of sleep, tosses off vodka and tomato juice (a combination which he believes does not taint the breath), reads leases or studies maps and impatiently awaits the new dawn...