Word: habit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...debatable whether all the alchemy doe:s much more than remind customers to cleanse their skin thoroughly and regularly-a good habit, like brushing the teeth. At the very least the treatments massage the psyche. Says Arpel's Newman: "We're cheaper than a psychiatrist, we're more fun, we'll listen to all the problems you want to tell us, and you'll come out looking a whole lot better...
...admirable generosity of spirit in allowing women to pick up lunch checks. "I was also delighted," says Morrow, "to give up the little hopping stutter-step necessary to place me on the curbside when walking down the sidewalk with a woman. But I haven't quite abandoned the habit of holding a woman's chair. What I do is place one hand on the back of the chair and then fall into a sort of abstracted trance until the woman is seated, as if I were not entirely responsible for my actions...
TROY, N.Y.--The RPI hockey team, which has made a habit the last two springs of sneaking into the ECAC Division One playoffs just as Harvard is slipping out of them, edged out the Crimson again Saturday night when co-captain Steve Stoyanovich scored a power-play goal just 23 seconds into overtime to give the Engineers a dramatic 6-5 victory here...
Despite the risks of cigarettes, many smokers seem all too willing to take the gamble. In a recent survey, the A.C.S. found that 52% of smokers believe they will get lung cancer. Even so, that fear did not make them kick the habit...
...Myung Moon's slickly professional News World or the Gannett Co.'s strike-born suburban daily Today and may stay with them. Others may do without newspapers altogether, as happened after the 114-day strike of 1962-63, when some 400,000 New Yorkers lost the newspaper habit...