Word: habitable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with a cure of his own. After concocting a combination of wheat, molasses and bran as a healthful coffee substitute, Postpatented his recipe, dubbed the mixture Postum, and launched one of the first advertising campaigns for a prepared food. One ad exhorted: "Is your yellow streak the coffee habit? Does it reduce your working force, kill your energy, push you into the big crowd of mongrels, deaden what thoroughbred blood you may have, and neutralize all your efforts to make money and fame...
Grumbling Locals. Boyle is a little man, pale and bald, quirky and tempestuous, often riven with anger. He has a habit of jerking his head around to look over his right shoulder. Born in a coal camp near Bald Butte, Mont., he came from a mining family, and recalls how his miner father, an Irish immigrant, "died in my arms" of consumption. Boyle inevitably went into the mines himself and, with his fiery temper, became a strong union man, eventually a top official of the Mine Workers in the West. But when U.M.W. President John L. Lewis summoned...
...much, no one will say. His successor is Crown Prince Solomon Akenzua, 48, who retired from the Nigerian civil service in June to return to Benin and begin preparing himself for the responsibilities of royalty. Prince Solomon hopes that the Lagos government has abandoned for good its past habit of deposing obas almost at will. "If an oba does not do his job, he should be replaced, but it is his people that should do it. Obas are important in local government and should be protected from political caprice...
...behind a grille. "I disobeyed my parents"; "1 told a lie"; "I said a bad word." The ritual was required. Without it one would not be permitted to reach the bright day of his first Holy Communion. Later, if one went on in parochial school, it became a schoolday habit: the herd march into the pews for an afternoon of fidgeting or perhaps nervously inventing sins, waiting for one's turn in the dark confessional and the familiar-if not quite inevitable-"three Our Fathers; three Hail Marys." Sometimes the occasion happened to coincide with real sorrow, and even...
These pessimists sell their advice through counseling services, newsletters and books. Like anyone else in the habit of making a great many predictions, sooner or later they are able to say, as they do now: "I told you so." Almost all of the scaremongers, for example, like to brag about having recommended that their clients buy gold coins or gold-mining shares, or make similar hedges against recession. With recent jumps in the prices of precious metals-gold coins have doubled in value in the past year-many of their clients have indeed made handsome profits. But the gloomy prognosticators...