Word: instinctively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unfailing instinct for what women would regard as glamorous?deciding every design detail of every package and firing legions of aides and admen...
Memories of the day after Thanksgiving always fade by Christmas. You forget that horrible feeling that comes when your stomach reels under loads of ungodly amounts of food. Maybe its some primeval instinct to stock up for the long cold winter, but by Christmas we're all ready to go at it again. The key word remains 'gluttony...
...graffito distressed the cathedral's Dean, the Very Rev. Edward Patey, a clergyman known for his social conscience, but he defended the project forthrightly. "It might be called wasted space, wasted heat, by some," he says today, "but there is an instinct that one aspect of worship of God is to be aware of our smallness in proportion to his majesty. The medieval builders felt this. To go to worship God is not just like going out to buy a packet of fish and chips." As for the cost, Dean Patey has no apologies: "Compared with what people spend...
...After Stalin's death in 1953, he allied himself with Nikita Khrushchev, eventually serving as one of the party chiefs Deputy Premiers. During the Cuban missile crisis it was Mikoyan whom Khrushchev sent to Fidel Castro to explain his "compromise" with President Kennedy. A survivor by instinct, Mikoyan initiated the now famous attack against Stalin at the party's 20th Congress in 1956 and, eight years later, helped depose Khrushchev. Eased out of office at age 70, Mikoyan enjoyed an honorable retirement...
Only in the somber final chapters, through Gethsemane and the Crucifixion, does McCowen abandon these shadings for an almost severely straightforward manner. With a sure instinct, he realizes that here a minimum of effects will achieve the greatest effect...