Word: customs
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...better vantage point, Correspondent Cooke, who makes his own headquarters in Manhattan, was packing his bags this week for his twelfth trip across the U.S., a custom which has already taken him to the highways & byways of all the states. Says Cooke: "In Britain, I bear the 48 states on my shoulders...
...morning coffee break had become as deeply entrenched in U.S. custom as the seventh-inning stretch and the banana split. Clerks, secretaries, junior executives and salesgirls had come to consider it an inalienable right of the American office worker. In the face of that terrible, soft insistence, the fuming employer could only take his finger off the unanswered buzzer, jam on his hat, and follow along after the crowd to the coffee shop. As a matter of fact, he kind of liked a cup himself...
...labor market of World War II, when trained workers were hard to find and hard to keep, the wise boss had indulged such little liberties. Later, the men came back from the wardrooms and mess halls of the armed forces, where the percolators chuckle day & night, and gave the custom new impetus...
...desk. They find what solace they can in surveys showing that workers are more alert and make fewer mistakes after they get back to work. But for the habit itself, no cure seems to be in sight. In fact, thousands of office workers are taking more & more to the custom of popping out for a cup of coffee in the afternoon as well...
Robert G. McCloskey, assistant professor of Government, thought the new amendment "makes little difference," but he thought it would do "more harm than good because it makes a custom a legal requirement without the flexibility of a custom...