Word: instinctiveness
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...Nearly everything is wrong with the C.C.C.," stated Miss Thompson in her speech. "Every private instinct and private enterprise has been stified.....It was and remains a vast charitable enterprise...
...make the ancient catacombs of Thayer and Grays, the heritage of namelessness has passed from the Age that is Past to the Age that is Going Before. Far back in the mists of time Seniors, who once occupied the Yard, found their way from building to building by an instinct developed through long practice, not to mention an aptitude inherited from Cambridge ancestors plus a trace of Indian blood. But modern steam-heated life has dulled the senses; scholars today come not only from Cambridge and vicinity but also from Nebraska and Indo-China. Strangely enough, it is difficult...
...Dorothy Douglas has never been in business, but she has an instinct...
Casually, but with the instinct of an oldtime newspaperman making a scoop, Lord Beaverbrook referred last week in his report on British aircraft production to a new British fighter: the Whirlwind (specifications still secret). And he stated: "All the fighters and all the bombers that we lost during the months the battle has raged over Britain have been paid for in full, completely and entirely, by public subscription...
Colonel Hashimoto is an extremist's cynosure: he is tough, aggressive, cruel, tenacious, mystical. He loves action, and he acts by instinct. His body and mind are as hard as steel but also as sensitive as an ack-ack predictor. He learned the technique of revolution as a Japanese military attaché by watching Russian barricades in 1917. By 1931, he commanded a heavy-artillery unit in Manchuria, and was one of those responsible for the Manchurian incident of that year. Five years later he was one of the plotters in the bloody "February Revolt," in which many Government...