Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...publisher necessarily or even usually a martinet. Instead, his attitude "filters down, by well-defined channels, to his staff. . . . Without orders, without crude directives, city editors fall easily into the habit of saving their big type for safe topics like rape and burglary, and burying the 'hot' (the ideologically dangerous) news in the back pages. Reporters learn not to scrutinize too closely the sacred cows of the community, and editorial writers husband their mightiest blasts for the remotest wrongs...
...most trying experience since his painful vigil at Gibraltar during the early hours of the African invasion. At such times the carefully controlled Eisenhower temper bends under the strain; he hates uncertainty. All he could do now was to pace around headquarters, scribble memos to himself, a set habit at such times. One of his self-memos could stand as a masterpiece of military understatement: "Now I'd like a few reports." He doodled with his pencil, barked at his aides...
...records in his class. So did 33-year-old John Terpak, who set a new record in the military press for 165-pounders. Most popular performer in the show was Steve Stanko who won the title of "Mr. America." With other veterans, these Yorkers have made championships a York habit...
...their pupils do very well. Mothers with kindergarten children get instructions on how to teach, play games, punish, tell stories, test intelligence, deal with lefthandedness, lying, disobedience, sex problems, how to develop morals, neatness, courtesy, concentration, imagination. Sample instruction: "Obedience ... is the first requisite for ... proper instruction . . . the first habit to be inculcated. . . . Both willingness and ability [to obey] may be made a habit . . . the child should never be allowed to argue, dispute or question orders. . . . Say 'I want to see if you can do what I tell you, instantly, when I tell you and just...
...York World-Telegram, Financial Editor Ralph Hendershot wrote: "Granting stock options to officials of corporations is beginning to be almost a habit. . . . The wave of options (other terms are used in many instances) currently being proposed are designed chiefly to avoid income taxes. If salaries are increased for those already drawing down large amounts, the bulk of the increase would be paid in taxes. . . . These companies evidently believe that through these stock options, capital gains can be created, in which event the tax is only...