Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since the Japanese surrender last August, Generalissimo Chiang's Government has cracked down on opium dens in Peiping and Tientsin, ordered the destruction of poppy fields. All addicts must give up the habit in eight months or suffer severe punishment. A grower of poppies, a purveyor, or a pill-smoker caught in his third offense may be punished by death...
...Paris from his native Senegal in the early '30s. A spear-tall (6 ft. 8 in.), mission-trained blackamoor, he made a living by driving a taxi and hawking West African gewgaws. Then, at the 1937 Paris International Exposition, he performed as a fakir. It became a habit...
...conference Anne Shipley was the only woman delegate. Americans fell into the habit of introducing her as "the Mayor of Canada." She was much photographed, much interviewed. And there was New York fun for her, too. She had seafood dinners, saw Oklahoma!, shopped for a dinner dress, but found only impossible size...
...fundamental choice is whether countries will struggle against each other for wealth and power, or work together for security and mutual advantage. . . . The experience of cooperation in the task of earning a living promotes both the habit and the techniques of common effort...
...date Republican tacticians have largely confined themselves to running against Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal. This stemmed partly from long habit, partly from respect for new President Truman. But the bars are down now, and Harry Truman can expect the same unchecked criticism which the G.O.P. showered on the New Deal...