Word: reflexive
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...lieutenant ("There's a lot to be said for a uniform . ... best possible disguise for a man of intelligence") and said, "Catch a Fascist for me and I'll think about making you a Captain of Marines." Ambrose's magazine and Poppet's Marxed-up reflex to it furnished Basil with his Fascist. His betrayal of Ambrose is a piece of murderous satire which should at once warm and chill the hearts of hundreds of innocent, scared, suspected, non-fifth-columnists. It also helps bring the book into line for its surprising epilogue. France fallen...
...alcoholic taking the "conditioned reflex therapy" is first given an injection of emetine, which is, unbeknownst to him, a powerful regurgitant. The conditioning takes place in a small, drab clinic furnished with a kind of throne for the patient and a number of large white enamel pans. On a throne-side table are "all conceivable types of liquor...
...Chiang Kai-shek was surprised, it was a flash reflex. He knew the Japanese too well for shock. The blast of bombs in Pearl Harbor was the amplified echo of an explosion along a Manchurian railway ten years ago. Since that day Chiang's Government, like some dusty, neglected Cassandra, had warned the Western Powers time & again that some day the Japanese Army would turn on them as it had on China...
...Some zealous doctors used to advocate training tiny babies to evacuate at regular hours. Mothers would set their infants on "toidy seats," fight with them to move their bowels. Such strict training, said Dr. Aldrich, makes bowel control a reflex act, rather than a conscious process. When the stimulus of the toidy is transferred to a regular seat, the training is lost and the whole fight must begin all over again. A child can go dirty and play in his puddles, said some of the doctors, until he understands what a toilet...
...Army career he pays a two-day visit to one of the Psychological Laboratory's 17 testing stations. He is seated in a chair, asked all manner of questions, submitted to unexpected electric shocks, put to work on an ergograph (machine to test muscle fatigue), given mechanical reflex tests. Without his knowledge a motion-picture camera hidden by a wall chart records every revealing facial reaction, every embarrassed ear-scratching, every fake posturing. His voice is tested for warmth of melody (strong sympathies and emotions) or hard, staccato timbre (calm and determined will power). His reactions to sounds...