Word: instinctiveness
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...Coventry, who according to legend agreed to the pleas of his wife-Lady Godiva-that taxes be reduced, but only if she would ride naked through town. In the light of the new British tax hike by a latter-day Harold (Wilson), some Britons may hope that the Godiva instinct is not dead in the breast of her queenly descendant. Elizabeth, after all, is a fine horsewoman...
...last book was written under a painful burden of arthritis. What kept her going? "My gambler's spirit, my instinct for the game of life." Night after night, often all night, the aging lioness with the mad grey mane and a brow like Beethoven's sat writing under the strong blue light she loved. "Go away slowly, slowly, without tears; forget nothing! Go away adorned, and do not stop on the irresistible way, do not stop for rest except to die. And if you have, to the very end, kept in your hand the friendly hand that guides...
Rocky Jarvis, who will play number two against the Bullpups, has shown a killer instinct that fortifies his hard hitting. A 6-1, 6-2, win against Princeton is the closest any opposing freshman has come...
...Instinct for Quacks. Moran's explanation for his act of biographic terrorism is simple. "It is not possible to follow the last 25 years of Sir Winston's life without a knowledge of his medical background," he wrote in a letter to the London Times last week. "It was exhaustion of mind and body that accounted for much that is otherwise in explicable. Only a doctor can give the facts accurately...
...greatest comic character, a Falstaff as funny, as tragic, as human as the huge original; but what matters more is that here for the first time the author accommodates in a single opus all the dominant elements of his life and art: satire, language, religion, sense of tradition, instinct for milieu. The consummation is a social history of the war that in wisdom and spaciousness and easy irony rivals and resembles the work of Trollope...