Word: reflex
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congressional reaction to the bill was more like a reflex. Members who saw that the British Fleet could use New York and Norfolk as repair harbors at U. S. expense jumped like cats from a hot stove. There was immediate general agreement that the bill would pass-with perhaps slight modification-by overwhelming majorities, in from three to six weeks. The only way to defeat a bill the President really wants has been a coalition of Republicans and conservative Democrats. Now the Southern Democrats are interventionist almost to a man and Republicans are hopelessly split. Isolationist Senators Wheeler, Taft...
...Hardy in A Family Affair would buy Mom's big car. It was a B picture and got a normal B response. But serials were being done. So MGM made another Hardy picture, and another. The fourth one, Love Finds Andy Hardy, was made by the kind of reflex that keeps studios grinding them...
...whom Jeff is very fond, has been grabbed out of jail to be scapegoat if Sonny is not found. Jeff is reasonably sure Sonny is innocent; he knows Sam is. That he will sacrifice Sonny's life to his own political safety is, of course, a mere regretful reflex; at the same time he tries to find Sam at the risk...