Word: habitant
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...dispute over the drug, which must by law bear the label "may be habit-forming," broke out at a meeting of members of the Center March 15. Part of the controversy involves the question of whether the experimenter himself should be under the influence of the drug...
State officials are "looking into" the use of the drug at Harvard to determine if it is habit-forming or "harmful." Massachusetts has special provisions making illegal the possession of the habit forming drugs peyote and mescaline...
Legality: psilocybin must bear the label, "may be habit-forming," according to the Pure Food and Drug Act. It is, however, not under the jurisdiction of the Federal Narcotics Agency...
...Best of all is the effect on parents. Pryor insists that mothers come to class frequently and read aloud to the children. "It gets them into the habit so that they read to their children at home," he says. One mother was so mortified by her first recitation that she enrolled in an English-improvement class, now holds her own in the nursery. Another bought children's books, is peddling them evangelically to other parents. Says she: "The least we can do is to get books into their children's hands...
Jokes in Crisis. The two men became stanch allies and farm friends, although Stanton never could abide Lincoln's habit of cracking jokes in time of crisis. "God damn it to hell," Stanton stormed after one round of presidential humor, "was there ever such nonsense?" Stanton once told a petitioner that the President was a damned fool. When the petitioner repeated the remark to the President, Lincoln professed astonishment: "Did Stanton call me a damn fool? Well, I guess I had better step over and see Stanton about this. Stanton is usually right...