Word: instinctive
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Robinson is confident that "I could still cope with whatever competition might arise." But he knows that "I can't move in the ring with the same speed, dispatch and accuracy. My instinct used to guide my hands and feet. Now, the coordination isn't there any more ... I want to step out while my health is good, my judgment and balance unimpaired, and my sense of proportion unmarred...
...call it, Jim?" asks Krock in his election night ritual. Only when 76-year-old James A. (for Andrew) Hagerty calls it does Krock write his story naming the election winner. "I've always followed him completely," says Krock, "and he's never wrong. He has an instinct [that makes him] the top political reporter...
...general, however, is neither politico nor businessman. Turned loose amid the sharp-eyed denizens of the commercial world, he would probably perish miserably, the victim of his own rigid honesty, faith in his fellow man, and his instinct to command or be commanded. He is a man who is perfectly willing to be shot if logic or honor demands-or to order thousands to their deaths-and does not fall easily into compromise. Even Lem Shepherd's small eccentricities are uncompromisingly military...
After all, just because a man has a Harvard education, he has no inherent gifts that enable him to negotiate sex and marriage on instinct alone...
...automatic, unconscious and frequently impulsive act . . . an expression of tenseness, usually found in fidgety, high-strung, overactive children . . . The origin of nail-biting is probably in the instinct of the child to put every object in the mouth...