Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even more fundamental than the urgent furniture problem is the Council's newly-formed habit of insisting on privacy for its nominating committees. With its fingers burned in the past by suspicious criticism of its appointees the Council resolved last night no longer to make public the names of the students it selects to do its nominating. Complaints that men have been selected from politically-minded cliques and from the Council's own little family have hit home too strongly. Designed also to protect the reputations of men on the nominating committees who are put up for election by their...
...through habit, may forget to think...
About such developments are U.S. farmers reading these winter nights. And with reason: here might well be the shape of things to come, a key to post-war stability better than any program out of Washing ton, far better than habit-forming reliance on wheat-corn-cotton...
Once in action, fear is forgotten if the soldier is well trained, so that he responds by habit to definite battle orders...
Raised in comfortable country-house surroundings, young Stafford was the pet of the family. His religious mother insisted that her children be "unsectarian Christians . . . taking their religious inspiration directly from the spirit of the New Testament." Stafford absorbed her teachings, but quickly developed "a disconcerting habit of giving unsought, and often unwelcome, advice to elder members of the family." Result: his elder brothers dubbed him "Dad," and "the trait which earned the name has been a characteristic of his political life...