Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dwindling detachment of long-memoried men La Guerre Est Finie-the war is over. Diego travels a dreadmill between the two countries in constant fear of arrest. He knows that for him there can be no victory, only an avoidance of defeat. Still, out of a habit that seems a stranger within his skin, he continues the gritty business of contacting comrades, smuggling propaganda into con- voluted Spanish cities where, in T. S. Eliot's phrase, the streets follow like a tedious argument...
Diego travels a dreadmill between the two countries in constant fear of arrest. He knows that for him there can be no victory, only an avoidance of defeat. Still, out of a habit that seems a stranger within his skin, he continues the gritty business of contacting comrades, smuggling propaganda into convoluted Spanish cities where, in T. S. Eliot's phrase, the streets follow like a tedious argument...
...Habit of Succumbing. Partly as a result of this old-fashioned management, said the report, four of the 18 nationally circulated newspapers are likely to close down by 1970. Only two-Lord Thomson's Sunday Times and Cecil King's Daily Mirror-can face the future with any kind of confidence. From 1957 to 1964, newspaper profits rose 29%, while editorial costs jumped 98% and production wages soared 130%. During this period, only seven papers succeeded in increasing their revenues more than their costs. Average circulation fell 6%, which was an indication that the rise in population...
...many of whom do little to earn their pay. The cost to the industry of this featherbedding: a debilitating $13.6 million a year. Despite the waste, continued the report, management has too often shown little inclination to do battle with the unions. Instead, it makes a habit of "succumbing to extreme pressure." Sometimes it even succumbs in ad vance. It was long believed, for instance, that the Guardian was forced to print in both London and Manchester because of union insistence. In fact, the Guardian management never formally discussed with the unions the possibility of shutting down...
...onto a beach at full throttle, ride a wagon hauled by galloping horses, plunge through an opening drawbridge, fall off a roof, and accidentally lean on a dynamite plunger. At the moment of greatest peril, the pixy hollered something like: "Stamp out cramped compacts!" or "Kick the dull driving habit!" or "Don't follow the leader. Drive it!" After which she miraculously escaped disaster-crying "Join the Dodge Rebellion...