Word: instinctively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first of K-State's Alfred M. Landon Lectures this year, a gracious presidential gesture to the 83-year-old Kansan who survived his humiliation in 1936 at the hands of Franklin Roosevelt to become a minor elder statesman of the Republican Party. K-State, as political instinct and the Secret Service informed Nixon, was a comparatively safe campus on which he could propound his ideas on radical violence; Nixon won the 1968 mock election there...
This book concludes a two-part biography begun 14 years ago with the publication of Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox, a brilliant, admiring portrait of F.D.R. The first book focused sharply on the peculiar combination of idealism, political instinct and guile that allowed F.D.R. to bend events to his will in the exciting days of the various New Deals. The Soldier of Freedom necessarily takes a broader world view with far less penetrating results. Huge chunks of the book turn out to be rewrites of World War II history. Roosevelt is wheeled on and off the world stage...
...seasoned Zeckendorf a "bee in clover." Basically, a successful real estate deal is an economic snowball operation. You find a good property, make a minimal down payment, borrow as much as possible at low interest, then sell high to finance the next deal. In addition to having an uncanny instinct for all the complex variations of this pattern, Zeckendorf had the vision to expand beyond New York into the fastest-growing areas in the country...
...Dennis has a detective's instinct for charting the President's movements that would probably keep the Secret Service awake nights if they knew. "You can tell which church he's going to go to," she confides, "because the Secret Service checks it out for about a week beforehand. So that's where I go on Sunday, and sometimes he goes and sometimes he doesn't. Last week he didn't, but he's very fair about it, I think. He said he would go to all the largest churches in San Clemente...
...Francisco Chronicle Columnist Herb Caen, pandering to some low and unworthy instinct, has concocted a game called "punny farm." Caen invited his readers to tousle the language with names for their pets and other animals...