Word: reflexive
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...Hardy in A Family Affair would buy Mom's big car. It was a B picture and got a normal B response. But serials were being done. So MGM made another Hardy picture, and another. The fourth one, Love Finds Andy Hardy, was made by the kind of reflex that keeps studios grinding them...
...whom Jeff is very fond, has been grabbed out of jail to be scapegoat if Sonny is not found. Jeff is reasonably sure Sonny is innocent; he knows Sam is. That he will sacrifice Sonny's life to his own political safety is, of course, a mere regretful reflex; at the same time he tries to find Sam at the risk...
...example, last year at the end of the Yale race at New London an oarsman suddenly slumped over in his seat. He was operating under an old psychological reflex which required that after he had rowed a certain definite time he should stop and rest...
Unfortunately there was a strong ad- verse tide that day which lengthened the race by two minutes. When the oarsman had rowed for the usual length of time, his old reflex went into effect and he stopped--despite the fact that there were still two minutes...
...Russian physiologist Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, discoverer of the conditioned reflex, so trained his dog that he had only to ring a bell to make its mouth water. The governments of Europe hope to make their citizens' flight to safety just as automatic when the air-raid sirens wail...