Word: habited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what about his habit of squeaking rubber balls in your ear when you were dying in the last...
...Buchman's "Oxford Group." Beverley was not impressed by Leader Buchman, who was "so slick and starched and glossy that he suggested an American dentist: one felt he was always on the point of saying 'Open wide!'" But he fell for the Groupers' open-wide habit of confessing their sins to each other-until the disillusioning day when he himself tried to confess to a young lady-Grouper. With a scream of "Oh, really!" his confessor "shot away like a frightened deer...
Last week an unobtrusive little booklet quietly joined the glut of magazines on local news-stands. Devoted to "analyzing, discussing, and interpreting American affairs," U.S.A., The Magazine of American Affairs is the National Association of Manufacturers' contribution to the nation's reading habit...
...advise a sheik in Bahrein. Belgrave took it, married a childhood friend, and set out with her for the Persian Gulf. He found Bahrein living on an income of something less than $500,000 a year. Sheiks at that time were not in the habit of sharing the wealth. But Belgrave talked the Sheik into electricity for the capital, public health measures, and an inter-island causeway...
Today, at 55, Author Cronin (who now lives in Connecticut) is at peace with himself. His experiences as a physician, and the habit of reflection, have helped him to settle the conflict that existed in separate compartments of his youthful mind: "No matter how we try to escape, to lose ourselves in restless seeking, we cannot separate ourselves from our divine source. There is no substitute for God." Author Cronin's publishers, probably estimating correctly the appeal that these autobiographical tales will have, ordered a huge first-publication pressrun of 75,000 copies...