Word: reflexive
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Despite the congressional leaders' relief, the President's plan was a form of compulsory arbitration, but disguised by indefiniteness and delay. Almost by reflex, railroad union leaders grumbled about the plan. Cried Roy E. Davidson, grand chief engineer of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers: "This is not only compulsory arbitration, but compulsory arbitration with the added evil of an utterly unfair preferment for the demands of management. The ICC is biased against the labor organizations." But for the unions, the President's plan was actually a good deal. At the very least, it provided delay, and delaying...
...life. The acquisition of a habit consisted of developing a new pathway of discharge in the brain. Even the most complex habits were viewed as merely a chain of discharges in the nerve centers--the result of a series of sensory stimuli and motor responses comprising a system of reflex paths...
...muscles is often a satisfactory substitute for crying. These crossovers and feedbacks between physical movements and processes that appear to be purely mental are as subtle as they are mysterious. At the Philadelphia Rehabilitation Center, Therapist Glenn J. Doman treats partly paralyzed patients by training them to "capture" reflex movements by a conscious effort. An obvious one is the knee jerk. The therapist provokes this by hitting the knee with a little rubber mallet. The nerve impulses involved travel only as far as the spinal cord, and the patient cannot make the movement of his own volition. But after willing...
...George A. Daley insisted that he held Washington from behind and that Washington began to struggle and kick; one of his kicks caught Daley's partner in the groin. Washington claimed that he was punched in the stomach and that if he did kick the man, it was a reflex...
...nice woman," he says gently, regretfully. And then he leaves. She runs to the door. "Stop, Albert Langlois!" she screams after him. "Stop!" the villagers take up the cry. "You are wanted!" He stops as though a shot had been fired, and then, as if compelled by a reflex he cannot control, he slowly and with infinite hopelessness lifts his hands above his head...