Word: habitant
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...smoker himself, Dr. Wynder despairs of persuading 55 million Americans to quit the habit. But to make it safer, he urges manufacturers to use low-tar tobaccos and the most potent filters they can find. For smokers themselves he recommends: try to cut down, inhale less, never smoke down to the butt-not more than half of a king-size cigarette-because 60% of the tar is in the last half...
...most amusing speech of the evening came as Dutch Holland of the Red Cross gave Ulen a citation and medal for his many years as an instructor of life-saving. He recalled Ulen's old habit of giving his swimmers a potion resembling castor oil before each race...
...commander demanded that the Dalai Lama prove his "solidarity" by ordering his 5,000-man bodyguard against the rebels. It was a shrewd move, for in the past Lhasa had had its own troubles with the Khambas, who recognized the spiritual rule of the Dalai Lama but had a habit of killing his tax gatherers and robbing caravans. The God-King solved it neatly: he sent a message to the Khambas saying cryptically that "bloodshed was not the answer," but flatly refused to lend Tibetan troops on a punitive expedition...
...Hughes D'Aeth, 58, and three years ago he was an R.A.F. air vice-marshal, with a C.B. (Companion of the Bath) and C.B.E. (Commander Order of the British Empire) after his name. A professional fighting man with a record of service around the world and the long habit of command, he now works at the beck and call of St. John's aging and nearly blind vicar, the Rev. Andrew Nugee, must tumble out of bed to take early service when the vicar tells...
President Charles W. Eliot recalled after his resignation some of the fires throughout the University's history. One of them involved a French instructor who used to teach in the University Hall basement classroom in the 1858-9 term. He had a touchy habit of listing his agenda for the day on the blackboard and hiding it with a curtain so as not to distract his young men in class. Then he would whip the curtain back dramatically and pompously at the right time in the recitation period...