Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about his ability to reshape and reform U.S. life in four years. Although he was an admirer and a protege of Franklin Roosevelt, he still disparages the zealous young New Dealers who sought sweeping national changes overnight. And one of F.D.R.'s few faults, Johnson believes, was his habit of playing various elements of U.S. society against each other. Johnson seeks accommodation, not conflict...
Pushers. Shuman felt, moreover, that the Government was making hopheads of the farmers as well. "I think Government payments have something in common with the narcotics habit," he said. "Once on the habit, the victim becomes convinced he cannot live without the drug. In the jargon of the underworld, he's hooked. He'll do most anything to get his next fix, his next check. The pushers, in this case the Government bureaucrats and committees, constantly work to get more farmers hooked and dependent on payments." The upshot, Shuman said, "is very simple: the more that are hooked...
...stutter), a sense of demagoguery, and a neat flair for martyrdom. Savio dropped his classes and to lead a self-styled Free Speech Movement aimed at battering down the university's limits on out-of-classroom expression. His gifts were nicely matched by the university's habit of vacillating between concessions and crackdowns. By early last week F.S.M. had won most of the freedom a student can use, including political activity and fund raising. The university authorities held out only for the right to add its own punishment to any that courts might take against students...
Legal Support. Cook's release despite the energetic newspaper campaign to have him executed, is cited by defenders of the press's habit of trying cases in print. At discussions on press freedom and fair trial, Managing Editor Robert Notson of the Portland Oregonian has repeatedly and vainly asked lawyers and judges to name one occasion on which hostile newspaper publicity helped convict an innocent...
...them, Bierweiler patiently explained that the models were not meant to be decorative curiosities; rather, they were exact replicas of representative plants intended as a lifelike guide to botanical taxonomy. Higher plants are classified according to the nature of their flowering parts, but real plants have an infuriating habit of seldom blooming at the convenience of the people who study them. The 847 hand-molded Glass Flowers were an excellent solution to this difficulty and still remain invaluable as teaching aids...