Word: instinctiveness
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Last Hope. For the land at which Miss Martineau stared was not merely a country but one of the last best hopes of the world and by some British instinct of freedom she knew it. Europe was a prison and a charnel house. This was the land on which all men's dreams of freedom had come to rest. It was one of the last unoccupied lands in the world. This land had fought for and established a revolutionary principle-political liberty. If that succeeded, the world's weary history of successive tyrannies would change. If it failed...
...fact," one of them said, "the chief phenomenon of the day was the amount of work the girls managed to do. Maybe it's just a feminine instinct, perhaps or they're just more experienced at picking...
...cold figures the only cold comfort came from the fact that the birth rate for 1942's first quarter was higher than in any similar period since 1931. While World War I had dissipated the procreative instinct, World War II, during which much of the army has stayed home, seemed to be stimulating...
...revealingly of his own thoughts and beliefs as any man since Henry Adams, Gandhi is the great paradox-an arch reactionary,-yet the greatest revolutionary leader of his time. Invariably Nehru has swung to Gandhi's side, often in subsequent amazement that so mystical a character could, by instinct, sense the time for mass movements and the means to arouse public support...
...payrolls away, before rationing got too tough, the people had decided to enjoy themselves. Some men were troubled that the spirit of sacrifice was not abroad (see box). But whether or not men took the war to heart in every town that had a wartime boom, men followed their instinct: eat. drink and make merry for tomorrow we fight. There every night is Saturday night and Saturday night is New Year's Eve. For example...