Word: reflexivity
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...efforts in five years to streamline the Army Reserve and National Guard, their usefulness in an emergency would still be seriously impaired by the many units that remain undermanned and underequipped. Last week the Pentagon announced a third reorganization plan for both groups, aimed at cutting fat and building reflex-fast muscle...
...reflex arc of mechanism usually involved in hiccups is not entirely understood. The phrenic and vagus nerves are known to be part of it; Dr. Salem thought that it might often include irritation of the trachea, or windpipe. Using a catheter introduced through the nose, he and his colleagues tried spraying the back of the throat with a local anesthetic. They soon noticed, however, that the mere introduction of the catheter stopped the hiccups without drugs...
...Reflex Anger. Before the passage of that act, militant civil rights leaders descended on the Dallas County city of Selma in March 1965. They delighted at the reflex anger of Dallas Sheriff Jim Clark and his mounted "posse men," his electric-shock cattle prods, and forced marches of Negro children. After the inevitable clash on Sunday, March 7, 1965, when 650 Negroes met tear gas and clubs, Judge Johnson enjoined both Governor George Wallace and Martin Luther King from further action. Then he pondered a tough issue-whether to let the Negroes cross Pettus Bridge, march on Route...
...plays The Boss, has molded a character that is at once Brecht, Boss, and audience. His reactions to the events of the play -- to the East German workers' uprising -- are camouflaged with wit and contempt for three full acts. We can detect little going on in his mind, save reflex action, but we are nonetheless forced into the same chair in which he sits, to consider the same events with the same condescending ambivalence. In the fourth act, when the uprising is over and The Boss at last permits himself to respond -- to its "defeat," as he says -- a full...
...initial reflex of the habitual home-rule opponents when Johnson revealed his plan was one of opposition. The president of the anti-Negro Federation of Citizen's Association sputtered, "We regard this entire program as a subterfuge to try to slip through Congress the home-rule proposal which it turned down last year...