Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Chungking: "Militarily speaking . . . nothing serious. . . . The Communists are in the habit of ... occupying districts not strongly held by Government troops. So long as Government troops leave Communists in occupation . . . the Communists are silent. As soon as Government troops recover the lost districts, the Communists start accusing the Government of attacking. . . . The Government does not contemplate any change in its policy of seeking a settlement of the Communist problem by political means...
Although Flam's 133 Ibs. on a wiry 5-ft.-9-in. frame supply no overwhelming power, he is a sharp hitter who makes a habit of nonchalantly retrieving his opponents' put-away shots, and in the long run generally outfoxes them with craftily angled returns. His service is on the weak side, but he has developed a strong specialty-a deft lob with a mean spin...
...Japanese war was heading for a similar conclusion: the Potsdam declaration set forth terms that are conditions of surrender. By the time the declaration appeared, unconditional surrender was more a habit of thought - or an excuse for avoiding thought - than anything else...
...doubt the defeated faction should have slipped quietly away. For, like people, governments wish that former friends, whom for one reason or another they have injured, would drop away tactfully. But the London Poles had always been stiff-necked. Perhaps it was political despair, perhaps it was the habit of authority, perhaps it was old-fashioned love of country, which new-fashioned love of class was subtly supplanting through Europe, but the defeated government refused to fold up quietly. It denied that the free elections promised soon by the Warsaw Government would be free in a country governed behind...
This desert-fighting phase first brought out in Wavell an urge to express himself Biblically to his officers, a habit he developed to a high degree in his later Middle East campaigns. For a warning against unexpected rainy seasons in desert climates, he drew on Elijah's message to Ahab in I Kings, 18:44 ("Prepare thy chariot and get thee down, that the rain stop thee not"). The danger of floods in Palestine he underlined with a quotation from Jeremiah 12:5 ("How wilt thou do in the swelling of the Jordan?"). The folly of expecting military assistance...