Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sing Something Simple. The tune of Lili Marleen has the simplicity, tinged with poignancy, which has characterized many of the most enduring popular songs (Madelon, The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, etc.). It begins by impressing its listeners as musical beer and sauerkraut, ends by becoming a habit-forming musical drug. With an ump-pah accompaniment, it is a march. Changed to ump-da-dump-dump, it becomes a tango. In either case, the strains are of a kind which easily attach themselves to romantic memories and the pathos of separation...
Place and Heath have already started their work, and Place's appeal has already gone out. Their policy will be not to ask for very large donations from members of their class, but to see that the class gets the habit of contributing as soon as they leave College...
...very close to God. I recognized something great in her. And I believe that my childhood training influenced me greatly even though I was more or less rebellious at the time. ... I found family prayers tiresome. ... I hated the long sermons. But today I feel that this church-going habit established something, a kind of stability...
When U.S. Ambassador William Harrison Standley remarked last month in Moscow that Russians were not well enough informed about what Americans were doing for them, he was in effect asking that the Party get over its habit of trying to keep a free hand in foreign relations by withholding from Press and People any news-such as news of friendly private contributions from abroad-that might warm up the Russians toward the ordinary people of other countries. An immediate result of the Ambassador's reminder was an increase of Lend-Lease news in Russian papers...
...people, and to retain public approval of their conduct of the war, through the medium of a press, in Britain and in America, intensely, sometimes childishly, jealous of its independence. These governments have likewise had to undertake political warfare, i.e. propaganda, with the aid of information men who by habit and training have no party-or perhaps the other party-and prefer breaking a story to following a line...