Word: instinctive
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...small-scale but effective demonstration of the Churchill instinct for justice in the face of odds. Like "Papa" (as she calls him), like daughter. Incidentally, the British Admiralty apologized officially to the U.S. Army...
Actually much credit is due to CBS newscasting for being neither impartial nor without principles. Its accounts of the outbreak of the war were instinct with editorial views of the dangers of totalitarianism...
There was also an assortment of dingbats that could be used by all who felt the first urgings of the adman's decorative instinct: hands with pointing fingers, flower-&-ribbon arrangements, screaming American eagles. Publishers grabbed up these canned illustrations because they forced advertisers to increase the amount of space they bought or cut down the typographical composition in each ad, and therefore the labor cost. Advertisers used them because they liked them...
...amphibious war. Therefore any mood of overconfidence should be severely repressed. . . . All large and amphibious operations, especially if they require the cooperation of two or more countries, require long months of organization, with refinements and complexities hitherto unknown. In war all impulses, impatient desires and sudden flashes of military instinct cannot hasten the course of events...
Died. Henry Charles Donovan, 74, for 40 years top-ranking U.S. wheat crop forecaster; of a heart attack; in Peru, Ill. Born & raised a farmer, salty, white-thatched Donovan developed his knack, a combination of instinct and statistics, as a farm-machinery salesman...