Word: habited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most striking things about the saucers are 1) their silence, 2) their habit of darting in violent zigzags and 3) their apparent high speed. Dr. Menzel does not take the reported speed at its face value. "Unless you know the size of an unfamiliar object," he says, "you cannot judge its distance, and unless you know its distance, you cannot judge its speed...
...simple child of nature who likes to cuddle up with her pet fox. Just when she has settled down to a calm marriage with a parson (Cyril Cusack), along comes Squire David Farrar, a virile type, who whisks her off to his outsize estate. But Farrar has a crude habit of fox hunting, so Jennifer soon cools toward him. The ending is drenched in predictable melodramatics...
Long the top nutritionist in New York City's Health Department, Dr. Jolliffe believes that people may overeat for one of three main reasons: 1) simple habit,which may be the result of growing up with obese, gluttonous parents; 2) on purpose, as when a child tucks away gobs of food because then his nagging mother stops nagging; 3) psychosomatic urges, to compensate for some social, financial or sexual problem. The second and third causes eventually harden into habits...
...body's temperature-control, water balance and sleep-control mechanisms. It may be thrown out of kilter by injury or disease. But where there is no physical explanation for the appestat's demanding too much fuel, Dr. Jolliffe believes that the answer must be found in habit or conditioning. And it takes "time for habits to be overcome. "Eventually, however," he says, "if the reducer is conscientious, exerts his will power, and is, above all, a good sport, the appestat will usually return to a lower level, so that a smaller intake of food will give satisfaction...
...Until 1937, I had been in this respect, a typical modern man, living without God except for tremors of intuition. In 1938, there seemed no possibility that I would not continue to live out my life as such a man. Habit and self-interest both presumed it. I had been for 13 years a Communist; and in Communism could be read, more clearly with each passing year, the future of mankind, as. with each passing year, the free world shrank in power and faith . . . Yet, in 1938, I gave a different ending to that life...