Word: instinctively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week it became apparent that Mr. Dimond was not unduly alarmed. From the captain of the Bering Sea schooner Sophie Christenson came a radio to home offices at Seattle: "Bering Sea covered with Japanese fishing boats and nets. . . . No cutters around. We have God-given instinct to shoot straight. Please ship dozen high-powered rifles, plenty of ammunition...
...Sophie Christenson's operators prepared to comply, and to duplicate the order for their schooner Charles R. Wilson, U. S. Coast Guardsmen said four cutters were watching Japanese and U. S. fishermen, apparently did not find Japanese encroaching. Snapped a Coast Guardsman, also cherishing God-given instinct: "If there's any shooting to be done...
Freud's writings are always dramatic. In the world that he pictures, man's ego is always at war with his unconscious; sons are at war with their fathers; man's sexual instinct, as deeply rooted as his hunger for food, is at war with the norms and conditions of social life. And contrary to the usual impression, most of Freud's writing deals with the simplicities and not with the abnormalities of human experiences: with people sleeping, dreaming, blundering and forgetting, not with sexual aberrations and sexual crimes...
...cotton and whale oil. Somehow this sight always filled him with a feeling that the was a part of the past of New England, a deep-seated feeling that his love of the sea, indulged only like an amateur, was as much a vital part of him as the instinct of hunger or love. Perhaps Herman Manville--who had known this harbor like a home--had felt the same intense experience, perhaps had sat on the self-same breakwater, and had distilled that sensation for all time in the story of Ahab and the white whale...
...after those two days we found we liked her better than most of the girls we knew. Maybe it was because we knew here better, and had seen her react to danger, to beauty, had seen the mother instinct come out in her in a subdued sort of way. Maybe it was because she liked the things we like; animals and green fields and wishing wells. And she had nice friends, simple people, a relief from the kind nice follow you see around the Yard. She was "different," and we liked her, and we'll be on hand to welcome...