Word: habit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...smart money studied the figures and played Calumet Farm's Tim Tarn or Jewel's Reward, the Maine Chance speedster. But reading race charts is a cold-blooded business. Sentimentalists liked Silky, the brawny, unkempt boy from the West; hunch players loved him for his heart-stopping habit of hanging back, far off the pace, and coming on in the final seconds to overhaul horses in a wild scramble up the stretch...
Northeastern apparently makes a habit of upsetting favored Harvard teams. Last Fall the lowly Huskie hockey squad rebounded from an 11-0 defeat by the Crimson to nearly ruin the varsity's NCAA chances, topping the sextet...
...financial flop. But after he decided to concentrate on the law, Walter progressed rapidly from wills and deeds to more complicated jobs-the resuscitation of hard-hit bond and mortgage companies. Soon he was senior partner in a firm of 20 lawyers, and he took on the habit of chain-smoking his cigars. He learned to take two solemn puffs before he ever answered a question, particularly questions he was tempted to answer...
Born in London but always an American citizen, Mr. Eyre is often taken for an Englishman. His speech has a decided Belgravia drollery to it, and it is his habit to dress in British haberdashery. "My father has a curious theory that it is wrong not to live in one's country, yet that one must never identify oneself with it. Hence, I'm as British as possible, though, of course, his theory is all wrong...
...Smokers who cannot break the habit may owe it all to mother, according to Harvard Psychologists Charles McArthur. Ellen Waldron and John Dickinson. They found that the quitting ability of 250 subjects (Harvard graduates, classes of '38 to '42) was directly proportional to the number of months they spent as infants at their mothers' breasts. Those weaned at eight months were easily able to stop smoking; those at six months still had a chance. But the most confirmed (and heaviest) smokers had taken to the bottle at four months, say the psychologists, too early to satisfy oral...