Word: instinctiveness
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Miss McNamara is a Shavian adolescent transplanted to American and come of age. She is an excellent cook; "cleanliness next to Godliness," she says, and subscribes to Tennyson's three virtues of faith, hope and chastity. Added to these is a charming sophistication; she speaks knowingly of a "mother instinct," and has gone to school of Freud and D. H. Lawrence...
...Armyman Benner. While the others ate lunch, Harry Reeves flopped in his hut. Shuttling between his cot and the range all through the sweltering afternoon, Reeves was a shaky, sweaty wreck. But in each critical instant of firing, he aimed surely, squeezed the trigger steadily, guided his bullets by instinct, if not by sight. His 2,606 points beat Benner, who slipped to 2,595-a level only a handful of pistol-men can ever hope to attain. Harry Reeves's two daughters rushed up to buss him for winning his fifth National title. Harry smiled, but he felt...
Though she loves sitting at home alone, Shirley is sufficiently feminine and inconsistent to love going to parties: "When someone asks me to go any place, my first instinct is no; then I go, and I'm the last one to leave...
...frontier is gone but for the sons of the pioneers the instinct lingers on. To the desk of Nebraska's Senator Hugh Butler came the letter of a 14-year-old constituent. "I've written the Bureau of Land Management to inquire about buying property on Venus," it said. "I received the reply that it had no authority to give ownership. Therefore, I am asking you to write a bill. Something which would in the Senate further my interests. I am neither joking nor have I read too much science fiction. It appears that colonization of the universe...
...moonless night is"seven men wide"; it is so dark a man could be two yards from a crouching figure and not know it. Moving toward the enemy by compass, instinct and hope, the patrol covers 3½ miles in 3¼ hours. With another mile to go, Sheldon is so obsessed with the task of getting there that he hardly thinks of what he must do when he arrives. The Germans take care of that. Spotting the patrol, they open up. The fire is that of a battalion; by serving as a target, Sheldon gets the information...