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Word: reflex (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Reflex. Around the middle of October, Johnson asked McNamara if he was still interested. "I answered in the affirmative," McNamara said last week, and there was another exchange of assurances-McNamara's that he would serve as long as the President desired, Johnson's that McNamara could have any job he wanted, specifically the presidency of the bank. Yet both men were probably troubled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Administration: Departure of a Titan | 12/8/1967 | See Source »

Great Britain did away with the death penalty in murder cases in November 1965. Almost by reflex, advocates of capital punishment then argued that without the deterrence of executions, the number of killings would soar. For those who judge by headlines, it looked for a while as if the critics might be right. British papers seemed to overflow with stories about THREE POLICEMEN SHOT DEAD and TWO LITTLE GIRLS MURDERED...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Life Without the Hangman | 7/7/1967 | See Source »

...efforts in five years to streamline the Army Reserve and National Guard, their usefulness in an emergency would still be seriously impaired by the many units that remain undermanned and underequipped. Last week the Pentagon announced a third reorganization plan for both groups, aimed at cutting fat and building reflex-fast muscle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Trimming the Totem | 6/9/1967 | See Source »

...reflex arc of mechanism usually involved in hiccups is not entirely understood. The phrenic and vagus nerves are known to be part of it; Dr. Salem thought that it might often include irritation of the trachea, or windpipe. Using a catheter introduced through the nose, he and his colleagues tried spraying the back of the throat with a local anesthetic. They soon noticed, however, that the mere introduction of the catheter stopped the hiccups without drugs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Physiology: Interrupted Impulses | 6/9/1967 | See Source »

...plays The Boss, has molded a character that is at once Brecht, Boss, and audience. His reactions to the events of the play -- to the East German workers' uprising -- are camouflaged with wit and contempt for three full acts. We can detect little going on in his mind, save reflex action, but we are nonetheless forced into the same chair in which he sits, to consider the same events with the same condescending ambivalence. In the fourth act, when the uprising is over and The Boss at last permits himself to respond -- to its "defeat," as he says -- a full...

Author: By James Lardner, | Title: The Plebians Rehearse the Uprising | 5/12/1967 | See Source »

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