Word: instinctive
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Choice Venom. With a father's sure instinct, Arthur James Pegler. a Hearst reporter himself, forbade his son to go into journalism. But Westbrook heeded his father no more than he did anyone else. He quit high school to take a job with United...
...various times, various souls have tried to make honest men of all barkeepers. It has been the law in Illinois since 1949 that no whisky, gin or rum may be served in less than a one-ounce container. But most drinkers have only their own instinct to provide protection. Says Joseph Amann, a Chicago bar-equipment dealer for the past 38 years: "A man has a built-in measure in his mouth. If a drink doesn't burn as much as it did before, he knows he's getting gypped...
...feuding factions waged a struggle for control. Government was paralyzed and more Europeans were getting out. With industry at a standstill, the U.S., working through church welfare agencies, was feeding one out of five Algerians. What saved Algeria from complete disintegration was a modicum of political maturity and an instinct for survival that made the rival forces at least halfway willing to explore compromises. Emerging from these maneuvers was the near certainty that Ahmed ben Bella, 45, would win his battle "to take over the destiny of Algeria...
...conflict that he experienced during his first jump. "On the one hand is the fact of its safety: you grasp this easily and firmly with the mind. But on the other hand is the emotion of fear. It is so strong that you might want to call it an instinct. It is not, of course. This fear is very useful, and you have learned it from your earliest days of falling out of your high-chair...
...Frick does not try to do the wrong thing. Given the choice between doing something right or something wrong Frick will usually begin by doing as little as possible. It is only when he is pushed to the wall for a decision that he will almost always, with sure instinct and unerring aim, make an unholy mess of things...