Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They all work smoothly, bending forward from the hips, pulling and not chopping, in long easy strokes. They like best to work up hills, the steeper the better, for it means less back-bending work. And from some immemorial, ingrained habit, we always worked from left to right across the field...
Kennedy's habit of taking guests to the White House by helicopter nearly ran into a snag with Liberia's Tubman, who is distrustful of planes and came to the U.S. by boat. But Kennedy aides tactfully suggested that Tubman might like to see autumnal Washington from the air-and he agreed. Disregarding strict protocol, Kennedy arrived at the front door of the White House five minutes early for a luncheon with Tubman, quizzed the leader of the Marine band about what music he intended to play. Tubman was treated to a four-hour talk with Kennedy...
...hulking, preposterously implausible Greek cook named Tomas Agganis (Bill Travers). Actor Travers tries manfully to get a tongue-hold on his role, but what comes out is Basic Choctaw compounded with his Wee Geordie burr. A boyhood brush with the Greek constabulary has left Agganis with the disconcerting habit of kayoing any man who lays a hand on him. This reflex comes in handy whenever Playwright Gethers needs to plot-boil a climax...
...reasons, it doesn't look good for the Crimson, without the services of first-string quarterback Ted Halaby, who is sidelined for two weeks with a serious charley horse injury. One of the three remaining undefeated Ivy teams, along with Dartmouth and Princeton, Harvard will have to continue its habit of fooling the bookies, which it had acquired in the last three games, if it hopes to keep a clean slate...
Once having savored the heady pleasures of advising the White House on how to manage the country's economy, can an economist ever kick the habit? The answer, as supplied by Henry C. Wallich, 47, who served two years on President Eisenhower's Council of Economic Advisers, seems to be no-at any rate, not so long as the nation's press gives him a sounding board...