Word: instinctiveness
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From that day on Bob Kennedy, 31, a lawyer with the true prosecutor's instinct for the jugular, has been a formidable pursuer of the bosses of the powerful Teamsters Union. Son of Boston Millionaire Joseph P. Kennedy (who was F.D.R.'s ambassador to Great Britain), younger brother of Massachusetts' U.S. Senator John Kennedy, Investigator Bob is an average package (5 ft. 10 in., 150 Ibs.) full of far more than average energy. At Harvard he played end on the varsity team, though he then weighed only 160 Ibs. As a Navy seaman in 1945, he went...
...Brave One (King Brothers; Universal-International). One wild, dark night on the Mexican altiplanicie, the wind screamed and the rain beat and the lightning felled a great branch on a cow, a mother of fighting bulls. By sheer might of instinct, the valiant beast survived long enough to drop her bull calf and to bellow until help came. It was a small boy (Michel Ray), the son of a Mexican vaquero, who found the hungry black buster where he wailed indignantly in the cold and wet, and carried him back to finish his first night in a warm bed. Gitano...
...treated promptly by recompression, he is almost certain to die. The greatest danger of air embolism is in emergency ascents-perhaps after the scuba has gone out of kilter at great depth. Dr. Lanphier notes: "Only a well-instructed and coolheaded diver can be expected to repress the powerful instinct to hold his breath on making his way to the surface. Air embolism is believed to be second only to drowning as a cause of death in sport diving, but it is often unrecognized...
...could define exactly how the little tyrant worked his magic with them. As he hoarsely, ardently sang along with the orchestra, or exhorted, bullied and implored, he could make performers redden with shame, burn with rage, or soften with sympathy for him. And with uncanny and unerring instinct, he knew which would wring a surpassing performance from each of them. Over the years, he played Svengali to hundreds of Trilbys. After listening to a recording of her singing in Toscanini's 1947 broadcast performance of Otello, Soprano Herva Nelli (Desdemona) exclaimed...
...Rover. The car had been found deserted on a side street. Lieut. Moorhouse was not seen again. That night Commanding General Sir Hugh Stockwell sent out search parties to comb every house in the district, but they found no sign of the young lieutenant. Francis Moorhouse's first instinct was to seize a telephone and put in a direct call to Egypt's Strongman Gamal Abdel Nasser. It failed to get through...