Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Delhi, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru last week admitted in Parliament that NEFA's conglomerate tribes have another peculiar habit unflattering to a civilized nation: they still practice slavery. Nehru said that the government was trying to eradicate the custom slowly by giving asylum to escaped slaves and spending up to $105 per man to buy freedom for those in bondage. Should India move too fast in abolishing slavery, the NEFA tribes might rebel and turn for help to the Red Chinese across the border in Tibet. But if India moves too slowly, Red propagandists will exploit the existence...
...face negotiation. A policy, he says, is "a galaxy of utterly complicated factors," not something that suddenly pops out of somebody's head. As for face-to-face encounters between world statesmen: "Summit diplomacy is to be approached with the wariness with which a prudent physician prescribes a habit-forming drug." He thinks that Presidents should stay away from summits, leave negotiating to the Secretary of State-and that the Secretary should leave it, as much as possible, to ambassadors...
Once again there are wolves in Cambridge, and lights the color of red-flannel birds whisk up the avenues past guitar-shaped Santas. One Christmas is so much like another these years, when cynics tell you "Yes, Virginia, there is a Harry Byrd," that the holidays become a habit, and an easily broken one at that...
...also have book fairs from time to time. We know the kids can't afford hard covered books, so we sell paperbacks. We just want them to get in the habit of buying books...
...news page is always something new, largely because people have a charming habit of not doing precisely the same thing every day. You call Important Sources to Confirm Anonymous Reports; you wheedle information out of truculent Persons in Authority; you write stark exposes of those whom formerly you had thought innocuous...