Word: instinctiveness
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...shoved his throttles open. The big ship began to roll, accelerated, began eating up footage on the blurring runway. It flashed 500, 1,000, 1,500 feet, it got up to a speed of 100 m.p.h. Still it did not get off the ground. Warned of danger by every instinct, Baldwin kept trying to lift his 30 tons of hurtling, streamlined metal. Nothing happened...
Legend and the mating instinct have it that the winner of the hoopla will be the first to abandon the primrose path for the middle aisle...
...natural instinct for cooperation must have a universal rebirth, she remarked. "Money is now the God of the masses as well as the classes," she went on, saying that men are divided into organizations of labor and management "solely by leaders who wish to use them...
...tactician (once the game has started), Durocher is unsurpassed; as a yearlong strategist, says Rickey, "he ain't." Durocher has an instinct for knowing just what his players can do in any situation. He yanks pitchers quicker than any other manager, and the results usually bear out his judgment. Pete Reiser stole home so often on Durocher's orders (seven times in 1946) that rival pitchers got the jitters every time he reached third base. Brooklyn scored more runs last season on squeeze bunts than any other club. Says Leo: "I play hunches . . . maybe other managers are afraid...
...years ago, at 51, Cinemagnate Louis B. Mayer discovered that all work and no play were making him, a dull boy. He tried golf, and decided he was not the type. Then he bought a race horse, and found a plaything that appealed to his instinct for high drama and fascinating figures. He confided to friends: "I'm going to run this stable the way I run my studio -build it on personalities." But once the heady smell of the stables got him, things got out of hand...