Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirs: As a U.S. Marine, I am not in the habit of begging anyone for anything, but there is one thing I will beg for. I beg my fellow citizens to give the loyal Japanese-Americans their God-given right to the life, liberty and pursuit of happiness that, I sincerely hope, is guaranteed by our Constitution...
General MacArthur recently said "News is as necessary to the combat soldier as bread and bullets"-and today millions of young Americans in uniform are getting the newsmagazine habit and reading TIME cover-to-cover each week-to learn the news from home and to see how the fighting is going with their friends on other battlefronts all around the world...
Paris Again. All of these infractions have been committed by British. Canadian, Australian, Free Belgian, Polish, Free French and other groups in Britain. The popular habit of bundling such complaints into a blanket indictment of the U.S. fighting man really means that the trouble is something else...
Manhattan's volubly witty Town Crier, the late Alexander Woollcott, had ten light literary fingers in a good many more pies, but what endeared him to his admirers was his habit of pulling out the juiciest borrowed plums in public with a happy little verbal smirk that meant: "What a smart boy am I." Last month he did it again (posthumously) in Long, Long Ago, a very satisfactory second course to his highly comestible While Rome Burns (TIME, March 12, 1934). Most of Wooll-cott's plums are still on the sugary side, but the best ones have...
...anti-subsidy argument had these valid points: 1) Subsidies may become a dangerous habit; 2) they might become a political weapon. But the argument relied chiefly on the premise that price ceilings are not sacred. The farm lobby boldly called for reinstitution of the law of supply & demand. Said potent Farm Lobbyist Ed O'Neal, a "little shot of inflation" won't hurt anybody...