Word: instinct
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...swaggering billiard sharpshooter and Willie Hoppe's longtime touring opponent, world's champion six times in three-cushion, twice in balkline competition between 1927 and 1946, who trained for a match like a boxer, doing roadwork around Central Park and giving up smoking, once remarked, "The killer instinct is part of a billiards player"; of a heart attack; in Belmont, Calif...
...will that precedes the death of empires. The British acquired Singapore in 1819, when that great buccaneer of the East India Co., Sir Stamford Raffles, dickered the island away from the Sultan of Johore's heir. A little over 100 years later, Singapore still had the Raffles instinct for a deal, but it had lost his daring and his sense of destiny...
...Saving Instinct. German campers have made the three-hour cup of coffee a way of vacation life. In Italian cafes, they sit six deep around a cheap bottle of vino nero, dawdle away an afternoon for 30?. Tip-conscious waiters avoid them like the plague, comment sardonically: "They have more money than other Europeans. Naturally they want to save...
...Senate he was conspicuous not for achievements of legislation or leadership but for youth, good looks, wealth, and the aura he exuded of being bound for higher places still. When he decided to run for President in 1960, he marshaled his advantages?charm, articulateness, money, a sure political instinct, and the handsome Clan Kennedy (TIME, cover, July 11)?and set out, half a year ago, to take the nomination by storm. Publicly challenging his rivals to run against him in primaries, publicly insisting that no presidential hopeful who shunned primaries deserved to be considered for the nomination, Kennedy...
...policy but more by instinct, the powers will confine their fighting to "neutral" areas as long as they can. I suspect the "neutrals" realize this and know that there may not be much they can do to prevent it. But they don't have to like...