Word: pavlovingly
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...Pavlov's Dog. At Dave Beck's side was a brown leather briefcase bulging with the personal financial records that the committee had asked him to bring. Ordered to turn them over, the witness unfolded a slip of white paper with the seven lines of large type that he had said earlier would "encompass the whole atmosphere of everything...
...most famous salivary incident since Pavlov's experiment with the dog, Red Sox outfielder Ted Williams has divided the baseball-loving city of Boston into two campus, the "I Like Ted" faction, and the "I Dislike Ted" group...
...Capellán de la Virgen (The Virgin's Chaplain), reprinted in the current American Psychologist. No clearer exposition of the principle of conditioned reflexes has ever been written. As every Russian schoolboy knows, reflex conditioning was unknown until it was discovered by Russian Physiologist Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1936). El Capellán de la Virgen, a play about the life of Saint Ildefonso (606-667), Archbishop of Toledo, was written by the Spanish Dramatist Lope de Vega about...
...Nationalists, like Pavlov's one-track-minded dogs, preferred to bark at the Dutch rather than bite into the current issues. In a remote Sumatran village a Nationalist screamed: "Politically you are free, economically you are not. Everything is still Dutch. You are guests in your own home...
...also publish on their own. But taken all together, the Oxford University Press covers just about everything except new novels. It has published Lord Bryce's Studies of History and Jurisprudence, Stubbs's Constitutional History of England, Sanskrit and Gothic grammars and the first English translation of Pavlov's Conditioned Reflexes. Its famed dictionary (414,825 words) is the scholar's final arbiter on English words, and its books of verse, its series of Companions and its reprints of the classics are in hundreds of thousands of libraries...