Word: reflexively
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Even with a narrow view to the present military pinch, Westmoreland's jingoism does not make much sense; this is the wrong time for the United States to close her options. Continuing the bombing is the reflex reaction to the enemy's offensive, but there still is no reason to believe that tactical bombing of the North has been, or is, militarily effective...
...peaceful) demonstration Friday is that it would clearly test the University's tolerance of violent dissent. Veterans of the October sit-in should avoid the fallacy that they have to prove their sincerity by playing confrontation politics with the Administration. They would be indulging in the same mindless, reflex escalation they rightly deplore in this country's Vietnam policy...
...city of Braunschweig owes its reputation to a pair of dissimilar products: smoked liverwurst and Rolleiflex cameras. To the dismay of the 48-year-old family firm of Rollei-Werke, Franke & Heidecke, the cameras have proved the more perishable of the two. Although Rollei's famed twin-lens reflex practically revolutionized photography when it was introduced in 1929, business began to go stale in the late '50s when its patents ran out, cheap imitations rolled in, and Rollei was caught without new developments...
...Reflex. Around the middle of October, Johnson asked McNamara if he was still interested. "I answered in the affirmative," McNamara said last week, and there was another exchange of assurances-McNamara's that he would serve as long as the President desired, Johnson's that McNamara could have any job he wanted, specifically the presidency of the bank. Yet both men were probably troubled...
Great Britain did away with the death penalty in murder cases in November 1965. Almost by reflex, advocates of capital punishment then argued that without the deterrence of executions, the number of killings would soar. For those who judge by headlines, it looked for a while as if the critics might be right. British papers seemed to overflow with stories about THREE POLICEMEN SHOT DEAD and TWO LITTLE GIRLS MURDERED...