Word: habited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scathing analysis of "Operation Quagmire" (TIME, Feb. 18)-believe that the Communists make minor concessions from time to time simply to keep the talks going indefinitely. The optimists have had almost nothing to feed on lately, but they keep on making hand-to-mouth motions, apparently from force of habit...
Commenting on Tuesday's $600,000 haul from an unguarded armored car in Danvers, Glueck said that it showed the same "clever, persistent checking on police habit and routine" that has been displayed in other recent robberies...
...explained that criminals can easily take advantage of the police habit to plan their crimes. He pointed out that it is very probable that most police patrol routes in this area have not been changed for the last 50 years. Not only does this facilitate planning of crimes, but it also results in some under-patrolled zones due to the recent change from residential to business areas...
Thus, in 1927, wrote Richard Weil Jr. in Yale's famed Lit. magazine. The poem was prophetic, for destiny's doors seemed to develop a habit of opening before brainy young Richard Weil's imperious knock. The doors of Macy's, the department-store chain, opened because Weil was the grandson of Isidor Straus, one of the original owners. But Weil rose rapidly on his own merits. By 32, he had been propelled from a sales clerk to president of Bamberger's, Macy's Newark (N.J.) store...
...Charley Olnutt, the gin-oriented riverboat captain, Bogart is immense--not the same old "I wouldn't walk ten feet to watch Krakatoa explode" Bogart, but a new man, an epic slob. He revels in his new role, his eight day beard, dirty tennis shoes, and habit of drinking gin and river water for refreshment. And best of all, when he gets in a clinch with Hepburn, you can just barely detect him laughing at the whole concept of Charley Olnutt, the poor sinner reclaimed by patriotism and selfless love...