Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when a LIFE photographer took a picture on a Sofia street, he was arrested-and then released with an embarrassed apology from the Foreign Office. On a side trip to the Pernik coal mines, the Bulgarian general in charge succumbed to habit; he wagged a forbidding finger when the first American camera appeared...
Criticism of the Music Department should not obscure its intelligent habit of self-examination. On this and other occasions Mr. Merritt and his fellows have displayed the rarest of academic virtues: the recognition of flaws in one's own armor. If every department in the College were to do the same, weaknesses, archaicisms, and inconsistencies would be fewer than they...
...dumbfounded. Said Nelson: "It's worth the money. You know I did a lot of work for you. I had to push a little here, and push a little there, and make a few promises." Twelve years in jail had taught Joe the habit of not asking questions. He said...
...presents certain problems. The manager must know when the school holidays fall, or he will be getting into trouble with the police; but on Saturday afternoons no holds are barred, and Harvard undergraduates rub elbows with students of Somerville High and with the families who have formed the Laffmovie habit. At these times the house is packed, and old-timers are reminded of the grand old vaudeville days...
Wright has made a habit of confounding engineers with buildings which looked plain foolish and turned out to be foolproof. He scorns the cold functionalism of most modern architecture. What makes him a revered revolutionary at 78 is his insistence that buildings are not just "machines for living...