Word: instinctively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...voyeur--as I say, don't knock it if you ain't tried it. I thought of the fiend as one who had come to a tacit understanding with himself that he needed this, no matter what it led to--ridicule, disgrace or even electrocution. The sex instinct is that strong...
...snatched it away and scampered 15 yards. When Thornton seemed about to waltz into the Crimson end-zone on a six-yard roll out around left end early in the fourth quarter, Tyson came from out of nowhere to drop him on the one-yard line. Driven almost by instinct on a second-and-8 play in the same quarter, Tyson moved up from safety to stop Smith's slant off tackle for no gain...
...Memory. Halfback Levias was operating on instinct. Earlier, with his ncredible agility, he had been largely responsible for keeping S.M.U. in the game. Accelerating, turning, shifting speed with deceptive ease, he ran the Texas defenders into angry exasperation. But at the end he was so exhausted that he cannot remember any of :hose final seconds. No one who saw lim can forget. He ran a kickoff back 24 yds. to the A. & M. 42 and caught a pass from Perez that was good for 29 yds. more. Finally, with S.M.U. on the A. & M. six, and only four seconds left...
...analyst of military problems for the Government-supported Rand Corp., where he devised the "systems analysis" approach to military spending. In 1961, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara lured him to Washington as Comptroller and Assistant Secretary of Defense. During his five years in Washington, Hitch employed reasonableness and an instinct for diplomacy to coax skeptical Congressmen and scornful generals into accepting the notion that money should be assigned on the basis of military missions rather than service demands...
...nice. And if we do have an orchestra, are we going to write them a pseudoclassical thing, which has been done better by people who know how to make it sound like that-or are we going to do it like we write songs? Take a guess and use instinct. So we said, right, what we'll do to save all the arranging, we'll take the whole orchestra as one instrument. And we just wrote it down like a cooking recipe: 24 bars; on the ninth bar, the orchestra will take off, and it will go from...