Word: habitant
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...sell goods for money, and will even lend our customers the money to buy them at the risk that they may not pay the debt in cash. But to let them repay with their own goods, which might compete in our markets with our products, goes against our whole habit of thinking...
...country was the country of the . . . 'petit bourgeois' spirit. . . . The arrival of the Americans, their methods, their supplies, helped considerably to upset their [Frenchmen's] ideas. They got into the habit of counting in billions...
Even more fundamental than the urgent furniture problem is the Council's newly-formed habit of insisting on privacy for its nominating committees. With its fingers burned in the past by suspicious criticism of its appointees the Council resolved last night no longer to make public the names of the students it selects to do its nominating. Complaints that men have been selected from politically-minded cliques and from the Council's own little family have hit home too strongly. Designed also to protect the reputations of men on the nominating committees who are put up for election by their...
About such developments are U.S. farmers reading these winter nights. And with reason: here might well be the shape of things to come, a key to post-war stability better than any program out of Washing ton, far better than habit-forming reliance on wheat-corn-cotton...
Once in action, fear is forgotten if the soldier is well trained, so that he responds by habit to definite battle orders...