Word: reflexive
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Miss West lights up the darkness of this trial with fierce flashes of observation. But none is so shocking as the reaction of Joyce when he heard the word "hanging" casually mentioned in court. By an unconscious reflex, he raised his hand and with his finger touched his throat...
Everything is reduced except "Harvey Harvard," a monstrous sized albino rabbit whose extraordinary dimensions frighten all but the hardiest "pupil" who might feel inclined toward biological experiments and reflex testing...
...like Coca-Cola, baseball games, or the Old Howard. Benchley's stock in trade is undiluted humor -- sometimes tempered with sophistication, cynicism, or satire, but invariably funny as hell. No one knows precisely what makes people laugh. Benchley's theory is that "all laughter is merely a compensatory reflex action to take the place of sneezing." If this is true, Benchley must be an awful pain in the neck for the manufacturers of Kleenex, a product which would have alarmingly small sales among the devotees of "Sly Old Bob"--as Benchley coyly refers to himself...
...livelihood, and by hope-hope for a better future, which never comes, but which beckons with each new Five-Year Plan from the disastrous present. But when these controls creak under the enormous task, purges are a summary corrective-at once a technique of dictatorship and a reflex of fear...
Growled Dr. Wooldridge: "I have never known anything like it before." Ben's loquaciousness, he said, was a form of conditioned reflex. He also had a suggestion: teach Ben to say, "I want...