Word: reflexively
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From the dense fields of kaoliang lining each side of the highway came a spatter of small-arms fire. With a combat-developed reflex motion, the marines sprang from their vehicles, took cover in a ditch and fired back. Mortar shells and machine-gun bullets flushed the ambushers-Chinese riflemen, some clad in loincloths, some in the bluish uniforms of Chinese Communists...
...Reflex. In Manhattan, when detectives tracking down two hotel robbers approached Jacob Strouse, standing in an alley, he tried to jump a 6-ft. fence, broke his leg. The detectives later found he had nothing to do with the holdup...
Conditioned Reflex. At Michigan State College, Instructor and ex-Army Major Charles Foo rapped ineffectually for order, finally brought dead silence and a class of ex-G.I.s to its feet, when he barked: "Tennshun...
...come a long way. Last week a 25-year-old terrapin named Arkansas Express ran away with Loyola University's first turtle derby. He was bought in a fish market a month ago, and trained by pre-med students, who used Pavlov's theory of the conditioned reflex. Main feature: the "gait-straightener"-a practice track with a picture of a heron on one side, a pike on the other (both are natural enemies of the turtle...
...general attitude about atomic control got no farther than the first primitive reflex of greed and terror; the unkeepable secret must be kept. The general attitude toward racial problems was most sadly expressed by the more thoughtful Southerners, who said they only wished they could spend the next few years where there weren't any Negroes. The general attitude toward Europe was in the first place insufficiently informed, in the second place wearily or even scornfully indifferent...