Word: instinctive
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Farmers had forgotten their chronic worry: low prices and poor markets. Their orders were to produce; and they liked that, because AAAllotments had thwarted their marrow-deep instinct to plant, tend and harvest. Barring too many bugs, too much rain, too little rain, things should have looked good...
...players, and no national championship tournament is ever held without some of them being in enthusiastic attendance. Judging from the number of high-ranking Army officers who play the game, they must regard handball not only as one of the best conditioners but definitely a stimulus of the competitive instinct upon which the generalship of the military strategist depends. Those who have seen Unlucky Joe Platak defend his title will appreciate TIME'S apt comparison to Joe Louis. Both are veritible tigers of energy and courage. Perhaps TIME'S article will get Unlucky Joe out of the Great...
...Charlie Chaplin's unerring instinct for social satire that first brought home to Hollywood the comic possibilities of the Nazi philosophy. "To Be Or Not To Be," with the late Carole Lombard, is much in the same vein. Like the "Dictator," it succeeds in making us laugh at the most horrifying reality of our age; like the "Dictator" it applies the vigorous technique of slapstick to the logical absurdities of Nazism; like the "Dictator" it is slightly carried away by good intentions into a lapse of maudlin didacticism, aline to the spirit of the whole...
...British-Canadian millionaire, newspaper publisher and politician, Lord Beaverbrook, last week stated, in the simple terms of human instinct, the case of the peoples of the United Nations for a second front in Europe. Said he (at a publishers' dinner in Manhattan...
...price control chips more & more at the profit margins of the businessman whom price freezing pinches, his normal instinct to deal justly with war necessities is bound to be more & more muddied by his equally normal desire to stay solvent...