Word: habitable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like thousands of other addicts, Dan Smith spent most of his life trying to support his heroin habit. Hooked at 17, he was subsequently convicted 18 times for drug possession and related offenses. Neither fear of jail nor intensive efforts by doctors freed him from drugs. But today Smith's life is significantly different. At 42, he is married, and he recently left his job as a shoe salesman to help rehabilitate other addicts. As far as heroin is concerned, he is clean. Still, Dan Smith (not his real name) is an addict of sorts. Every morning he stops...
...loudest complaint voiced against the Vice President was about his habit of attacking political enemies personally. The critics ranged from Iowa's moderate Robert Ray. who urged Agnew to adopt a positive tone, to California's conservative Ronald Reagan, who suggested that the Vice President dodge inflammatory statements about individuals. If necessary, said Reagan, the Vice President could always claim that he had not read a provocative speech or statement and therefore could not comment on it. Oklahoma's conservative Dewey Bartlett reminded the Vice President that he had been personally-and unsuccessfully-asked not to criticize...
...spend almost two weeks aboard ship. The cruise sponsor, the Institute for New Motivations, has decreed that we will be without tobacco, subject to endless lectures and exhortations by psychologists, defenseless against encounter-group leaders and a hypnotist who is all but guaranteed to free us from our habit. A few fling matches and even treasured lighters into the Hudson. Others are caching cigarettes throughout the ship...
...kept busy, which is part of the plan. "This is a four-pronged program," says Dr. George D. Goldman, a psychoanalyst from Garden City, N.Y. "We have a controlled environment, without cigarettes, which cuts down the social-habit motivation. The groups help reinforce the nonsmoking motivation. The breathing and hypnotism classes do the same, and the films and lectures complete the program." These techniques have been aimed at smokers before-but never in a sustained barrage. Now we are the targets-at $250 apiece over usual cruise fares...
Slowly, out of habit, their bodies twined together. They embraced. They were friends, though perhaps not best friends, they were in love. When they made love Nina thought, there, that's accomplishment, if we die now we're that much to the good...