Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nothings; they swear by the Literary Digest, are amazed that the banks have reopened and that there is a different Man in the White House. And they are soon as dissatisfied with modern-day Republicans as with New Dealers, though delighted-being broke-that brother Rensselaer's old habit of buying all sorts of screwball inventions has reaped them millions in air conditioning, cellophane and nylon...
...divinity school. Yale had one, so it was to Yale that Stagg went, aged 22, with $32 to his name. He always ran from job to class to garret-largely because he had no overcoat to keep out New Haven's raw, dank cold. He kept up this habit of running wherever he was going until 1957, when, at 94, he fell and skinned his nose. Said he last week: "I may get back...
Sloan and Kettering are like Stagg in that neither has ever smoked, but not for his reason; they simply never got the habit. Boss Ket has a highball before dinner every night; Sloan toys politely with a drink in company, barely sips it. Where Stagg still lives on a fanatically sparse diet, Sloan and Kettering boast that they have no food fads, eat in moderation whatever is put before them...
...students knew little about the facts of the racial situation; many thought, for example, that school segregation existed throughout the country. But there was an obvious emotional involvement in the Negroes' struggle for civil rights, illustrated by the repeated habit of terming them "our brothers." The Nigerians were pleased to note that, of our party of fourteen, five were colored...
...wears black horn-rimmed glasses for reading, smokes mentholated cigarettes, and works at his desk in shirtsleeves that are clean enough to smell white. His disposition is unbearable until he has had his first cup of coffee in the morning, but Mace explains this as "an old Norwegian habit...