Word: habitant
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...were hidden arms, Arab plotters and midnight sleuthing. There was a strutting, self-styled Fuhrer with plans to overthrow the Swedish government and liquidate the country's top Jews. And, finally, there was a Jewish informant who had no trouble infiltrating the neo-Nazis, since he had a habit of making anti-Semitic remarks and parading about in Arab dress. Yet for all its zaniness, the expose that was splashed across the front page of the Swedish newspaper Expressen for two weeks became the talk of the nation...
...theoretical formulation of the reconciliation is expounded in two works, one of which serves as an introduction to the other in the French edition, Critique de la Raison Dialectique and the introductory Question de Methode. As is the case with Raymond Aron, American publishers have adopted the infuriating habit of translating all but the most important of a man's work first, so that Aron's Guerre et Paix entre Les Nations and Sartre's Critique have still not appeared. A series of selections from the Critique are translated in The Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre. It is alternately almost...
Determined to discover why they were having so little success helping young drug addicts to kick the habit, Social Worker Herbert Barish and Presbyterian Minister Edward Brown began playing detective on the streets of Manhattan's Lower East Side. After 18 months, they are satisfied that they have found the villain: she is that pillar of American culture known to every American...
Bans on Ads. Only a few countries have tried to cut down on cigarettes. Czechoslovakia banned smoking at public meetings, opened 33 centers that offer advice on how to quit the habit. Though its tobacco monopoly earns $1 billion a year, Italy in 1955 forbade all advertising of locally made cigarettes, extended the ban to foreign smokes in 1962. Britain this year prohibited cigarette commercials on television...
...pill; others think that it is really a mild sedative that works no better than older and cheaper drugs, such as the barbiturates. A few physicians have reported that in some patients Miltown may cause a true addiction, followed by withdrawal symptoms like those of narcotics users "kicking the habit...