Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jews. Curiously, blacks would turn the son over to the police by a bigger margin than whites-42% to 38%, v. 42% to 41%, Those who would not turn in the son said that they would send him to a doctor or psychiatrist, or help him break the habit themselves...
...hypothetical situation evoked a much sterner response: 73% would report him to the police, and only 14% would not. The answer of Leo Adams, a retired electrician of Rittman, Ohio, was representative: "If he smoked it himself, he's only hurting himself. This way he might give the habit to a lot of others-maybe even another...
...unprecedented lengths to court prospects, flying them to the home office, spelling out working conditions in alluring detail. Even if they are due to be drafted or are members of ROTC with a two-year service commitment, they are offered jobs. Sought-after students are in the habit of saying not "I was interviewed" but "I interviewed"-and indeed they did. They can command salaries of $10,000 in the big corporations, $15,000 with Wall Street law firms...
...personal. But the film's simultaneous fragility and dynamism work only because Ford's method so perfectly integrates these sources of tension. The way he stylizes his characters through their sentiments. That Ford manages to create a society from action so charged with individual character, so devoid of fixed habit, and that he manages t make a film whose continual growth overcomes the wildly conflicting shots and emotions of which it is built, reveals his creative genius at the peak of its powers. MIKE PROKOSCH
...gallows, the amateur hangmen were apt to miscalculate the drop; at least once, the force of the fall tore the victim's head off his body. If a corpse were not carefully guarded, it could wind up in the hands of the souvenir hunters, who had a nasty habit of flaying celebrities and preserving them for posterity. For example, Big Nose George Curry, who was done to death by a posse at Castle Gate, Utah, survived his execution in the form of a man-hide wallet...