Word: reflexive
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...that is the Middle East. Egyptian mortars opened fire on Israelis patrolling along the Gaza border, as they had on many another routine patrol before. But this time the patrol, pinned down in a gully, lost three men before Israeli artillery counterfire released them, and the bitter reflex of reprisals began. The Israelis shelled an Egyptian village, the Egyptians replied with mortars on four Israeli frontier settlements, the Israelis retaliated by a heavy shelling of the crowded Egyptian city of Gaza. Before the U.N. Commission could get a ceasefire, 55 civilians in Gaza had died under Israeli shells. Israeli losses...
...skill of Boxing is the skill of a highly trained nervous system, capable of instant reflex action; it is the skill of perfect balance and graceful efficient movement . . ." tercollegiate bout, and is not its objective...
...scorn in virtually everything that crossed his irritable eye. He advocated death by artillery fire for Negroes and poor whites. A vociferous agnostic, he roared against the "whooping soul-savers." (One of his favorite letter endings: "I pray for you incessantly.") Religion, he maintained, was simply a "conditioned reflex...
Thus, in free translation by the University of Connecticut's Professor Jaime H. Arjona, runs a story from El 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...
...like that with everything, and that obviously was what happened in the case of the prowler. Between them, they built up their fear and determination to catch the prowler into an obsession. When Mrs. Woodward was startled by the noise, grabbing the shotgun and shooting was a conditioned reflex...