Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picture has one important good point: it was a fine idea to locate the family exactly in the actual world (the vicinity of Tarpon Springs, Fla.). This could become a valuable movie habit...
When they left the train at Camp Shanks, out of long habit they formed ranks. Then an unreal officer told them unreal things through a loudspeaker. "We want to make your stay here pleasant and short. You leave tomorrow for your homes...
Baldwin thought it high time Congress began to find out why all this should be. "For only by getting the facts ... no matter how punishing to our conceit-can we rid ourselves of the national habit of boastful self-deceit...
...supercharged individuals keep their health. The answer is, they usually do not. Anita Colby was hospitalized three years ago for complete physical exhaustion; last year two doctors kept check on her: now, like Lord Byron and a host of other driven people before her, she' has developed a habit of grinding her teeth in her sleep. To a friend concerned over her obsessive exertions she exclaimed: "But doll! Once I let up I fall apart! So I never...
...postage stamps, lest he spend it for drugs He walked through the hills, wrapped in an ulster that extended from his neck to his ankles-"gentle, humble and good anc very conscious of his powers, but neve vain or proud." He never entirely cure himself of the drug habit, developed tuberculosis, wrote almost no poetry in his last ten years, weighed only 70 Ibs. when he died. Beyond the knowledge of most men, says Author Connolly, Thompson "knew the meaning of the awful condition set down by our Saviour for those who would be His disciples: If any man come...