Word: reflexive
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...half, thanks to a three-point play by the public address announcer. With four seconds left, Brown's Dave Tarr drove in for a lay-up and collided with Merie McClung. Before the referee made a call Harvard manager Jerry Kapstein announced "Offensive foul!" and as a reflex action the referee trotted down the court to give McClung his foul shots. By that time it was too late to reverse the decision he hadn't made...
...photograph a man in an identical stance with Oswald's rifle under identical lighting conditions. There could be no doubt that it was the assassination weapon. A photography expert tested the original negative of the photograph, testified that it had been "exposed in Oswald's Imperial Reflex camera to the exclusion of all other cameras...
...other hand, a driver trained to use his left foot on the brake is a positive menace in a stick-shift car, where his instinctive reflex will land his foot on the clutch-where it will do worse than no good, since it robs him of even the minor braking action of the engine. Inexperienced drivers taught left-foot braking also sometimes freeze in an emergency on both brake and accelerator (one of the incidental advantages of right-foot braking is that the driver necessarily has to take his right foot off the accelerator...
...gosh," said Candy in real disquiet, unable despite her efforts to shake off all the old associations it had for her,...do we really have to?" And, almost in reflex, she drew her marvelous thighs a bit closer together...
...almost a reflex in the United States to go into raptures at the appearance of a Polish film, to praise it in sweeping nothingnesses like "sophisticated - subtle - profound depths of truth - sex - religion - blah blah." Yet in doing so, we unwittingly assume for Polish art too much similarity to Western art, too many common starting points...