Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...self-styled "Dirty Tricks Department," decided that it would be in their tradition to hit the Japs before the next dawn. Result: only 22 Jap planes had to be shot down; 227 which had been pinned down by night intruders were smashed on the ground in a few hours. Habit-bound themselves, the Japs had failed to allow for the change of pace. "I knew they were stupid," said Trickster Halsey, ". . . but not that stupid...
...down the middle between the New Dealish Times and Sun and the arch-conservative Tribune and Moscow-scared Herald-American. Unbiased news, nonpartisan, liberal editorials were the foundations of Knight success in Akron, Miami, Detroit. There would be plenty of tough competition in Chicago, but Jack Knight has a habit of winning...
...WASPs will land, according to Mrs. Hazel Taylor, their public-relations officer, who predicted: "Their careers will be marriage." Jackie Cochran's own "tentative" plan is to run an orphanage on the Odium ranch in California. But airmen who heard such intimations of renunciation wondered. Flying is a habit hard to break...
Boom in Books. The U.S. book business is booming as never before. In spite of paper rationing, 250 million books were produced last year. Homebound civilians have thumbed books up toward the entertainment class of movies, radio and magazines. The Army & Navy are stimulating a book-reading habit by distributing 3½ million pocket-size books* a month to the armed services...
People do vote by custom or habit, it is true, but they may get wise to a lawyer's bag of tricks...