Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bureau already on hand at General Stilwell's mission-house headquarters-Correspondent Clare Boothe and Photographer George Rodger-so he decided to keep on going, borrowed a jeep and a Tommy gun and jolted his way south into the bloody Jap-trap at Yenangyaung. (It's a habit with him; he's been in the thick of the fighting of almost every critical campaign since China was invaded...
...Many a golfer who finds himself a bit tense and jittery pauses, takes a couple of deep breaths, and then makes his shot. It helps a lot. It may take some effort to get one's self into the habit of deep breathing; but with a little perseverance, it becomes automatic; and the results are excellent. The game is to make a start and stay with it. And this is true of almost every thing...
General Arnold did not lie. Everything he said about U.S. planes was technically accurate. He had simply fallen into an old Army habit of selecting facts which made his whole picture look a little better than the plain truth. For example, it may well be that U.S. fighter pilots in Britain are training and battling in Spitfires mainly because Britain has plenty of efficient fighter planes, and that the economical thing to do was to put U.S. pilots in those planes. But it is also true (and more revealing) that the U.S. now has no fighter plane, thoroughly proven...
...island of Guadalcanal, said to be the only spot on the Solomons where a big system of air-dromes could be established. For the rest, the Solomons are precipitously mountainous (highest peak 10,000 feet), bordered with miasmic mangrove swamps, inhabited by ebony-black natives with an incurable habit of roasting and eating white visitors...
Catastrophic late-inning lapses had become a fatal habit with Coach Stahl's charges. But the picture changed yesterday when, behind Moe Berg's five-hit hurling, the Crimson struck early and hard for a six-run lead, and held the opposition to half that total for a 6 to 3 victory over the Fort Devens Recordation Center team at Soldiers Field...