Word: habitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Charles A. Willoughby (who changed his name from Von Tscheppe-Weidenbach) sat in his Dai Ichi Building office late one night, scanning proofsheets of the English-language Nippon Times, his eye lit on an editorial reprinted from the Tokyo daily Jiji Shimpo. "Japanese teachers," he read, "have the habit of blind worship for . . . the man in power. . . . They used to endeavor to instill in the minds of their pupils that the Emperor was God. Now they claim that General MacArthur is the Savior.. .. Until the Japanese are cleansed of this servile concept, democracy in Japan will make...
Hollywood, which can explain everything, had an explanation for this, aside from the general prosperity. Twentieth Century-Fox's shrewd Darryl F. Zanuck credited 1) crowded living (from which movies provide temporary relief), 2) the newly educated audience of veterans (who got the movie habit overseas), 3) the reopening of foreign markets (which normally account for close to 35% of the industry's gross...
...Most of The Dark Mirror's high surface polish can be attributed to 1) oldtime Satevepost Fictioneer Nunnally Johnson, who produced and wrote the screenplay, and 2) Director Robert Siodmak, who makes a fairly regular habit of getting his name associated with slick first-rate thrillers (The Spiral Staircase, The Killers...
...sang Pancho Villa's ragged army in one of the most famous of all Latin American soldier songs. U.S. soldiers, better heeled than the cockroach, gave ear, took up the marijuana habit. Later they smoked the reefers in Panama, and when World War II took them to bases in Ecuador, the hop habit they brought was the answer to a medicine man's prayers...
Most Americans understandably view Russia with considerable fear and suspicion, and an already critical situation is worsened by TIME's habit of damning the land of the Soviets on all occasions. TIME annoys by its devotion to a nationalistic American Century and by its attempts to smear, with seeming objectivity, all liberal groups as Red, Commie or Pinko, a set of terms that was once the exclusive property of the Hearst press. Good Democrats wince when, as a "newsmagazine," it refers to Republican election victories in terms of solemn rejoicing for the country, and scoffs at or discounts Democratic triumphs...