Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Georgia juries are not in the habit of convicting white men for killing Negroes, and at week's end, after deliberating for 3 hrs. 15 min., the allwhite, all-male jury found Klansmen Sims and Myers not guilty...
...most serious mistake that U.S. businessmen fall into is their habit of regarding Western Europe as a 51st state, forgetting that a product or business technique that goes over big in Memphis will not necessarily succeed in Munich. The Common Market notwithstanding, Western Europe is still composed of individual nations and sections that have widely different tastes and buying idiosyncrasies. Says Belgium's Marcel de Meirleir, a plant-location expert: "Americans just don't understand that, for instance, Rotterdam and Antwerp are commercially not just two different cities-they're different worlds...
...habit Egyptians cannot kick is the galabiya, the loose, ankle-length cotton garment that looks like a nightshirt and acts as an air conditioner of sorts in Egypt's sweltering heat. Fellah (peasant) and townsman alike have worn the flowing gown since the days of the pharaohs, and no amount of cajoling by Nasser's Ministry of Culture and National Guidance has been able to convince Egyptians that they should switch to that restricting jacket-shirt-and-pants that those strange, perspiring foreigners seem to prefer...
...junkies, 15,000 to 20,000 live in Harlem. "I was just born black, poor and uneducated, and you only need three strikes all over the world to be out, and I have nothing to live for but this shot of dope," says one addict. But the habit is costly: $1 for a marijuana "reefer," $3 for a "bag" (a single grain of heroin), $5 for a "deck" (three grains). A heavy user may need up to $75 a day, and that often means mugging people and sometimes killing them for the wherewithal...
Stomach contractions are generally unmistakable hunger signals to the stomach's owner. They are, that is, if the owner is a healthy man or woman in the normal weight range. Nature's built-in control mechanisms, reinforced by habit, are so strong that most people feel hungry three or four times a day, and when they do, they automatically eat the necessary amount of food. The trouble with most overweight men and women, say two Philadelphia researchers, is that their signaling system has somehow broken down. They feel hunger pangs, but they fail to get the message...