Word: reflexivity
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...gave Ebbets Field a charm of its own. Branch Rickey, who became president of the Brooklyn club last winter, has made it over into vendetta alley. Hawkeyes from the stands size up each Rickey move; hawkeyes from Rickey's aerie perched over home plate size up every reflex in the stands. There is plenty for each side...
...haired Dr. Thomas A. C. Rennie of the Psychiatric Clinic at New York Hospital listed medicine's weapons against alcoholism: psychiatry, vitamins, sedatives, high carbohydrate diet and, to help bring a man out of delirium tremens, glucose and insulin. He told about the encouraging results of the conditioned reflex treatment, which makes a man nauseated at the sight or smell of alcohol: 76% of one series of patients were improved...
...declaring his love for his young fellow teacher Louise Martin (Maureen O'Hara) and of standing openly with his friends against the Nazi conquerors. But the betrayal and killing of people he loves goads Lory into taking arms against the sea of troubles. He commits a blind, almost reflex act of near murder, which is forestalled only by the suicide of his intended victim. On trial for the murder he did not commit, the morally outraged schoolmaster speaks out at length against the Nazis, and further proceeds in open court to reveal his love for Louise Martin...
Truman was no ball of fire in his first term. He sat meekly in the freshman row, blinked when critics called him Pendergast's "errand boy," was second only to Pennsylvania's Joseph Guffey (whose vote for New Deal measures was pure automatic reflex) in unswerving support of Administration policies...
...slacks, was lounging on a couch. Suddenly the phone jangled and a White House operator apologized, for disturbing Mr. Roosevelt, but Secretary Knox was on the wire, insisting. When the President was told by his Secretary of the Navy that bombs were raining down upon Pearl Harbor, his instant reflex action was a cry of "No!" Later in a sudden spurt of anger he told Buzz that what the Japanese had just done was neither "decent nor Christian...