Word: habit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...explosion. In addition to the explosion type of labor-management negotiations, we are also extensively engaged in what we call "preventive mediation." This effort seeks to help labor and management deal with current problems so that there is no pile-up to detonate. Problem solving can become a successful habit. Government mediators are aiding unions and employers in over 1,200 such preventive-mediation programs throughout the nation...
Should a nun be allowed to kick her religious habit and appear publicly in skirt and blouse? Yes, decided Los Angeles' progressive-minded Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, who last fall made a number of reforms in their way of life, including the right to wear civilian dress. Although other Roman Catholic orders have modified or dropped their habits without any trouble, none of the changes seemed to please Los Angeles' James Francis Cardinal Mclntyre. He threatened to dismiss the sisters from their teaching posts in parochial schools of his archdiocese. The nuns promptly appealed...
...ruling was the fact that the Vatican had in the meantime sent the sisters an unpleasant ultimatum. Speaking for Pope Paul, Rome's Sacred Congregation of Religious ruled that if the progressives want to continue as an approved religious order, they must return to wearing "a recognizable habit." Rome also ordered them to restore the traditional discipline of religious life, including the compulsory daily prayer services that the reforming sisters considered in conflict with their work outside the convent...
...almost a bore to write about Harvard crew, because a long time ago the Crimson got into the habit of beating any other college crew in the country. Harvard heavyweight varsity oarsmen have not lost a collegiate race since...
...titles that proclaim the bearer's academic, professional or aristocratic status. Just about everyone has at least one title, and many people have several. German businessmen and bureaucrats never tire of constructing new and more elaborate handles to stretch across their calling cards and frontdoor name plates. The habit has reached such extremes that some Germans are now revolting against it. Typically, the reformers were unable to resist the temptation to compound a new word of their own. The name of their movement: die Titelverkiirzungswelle-the title-shortening wave...