Word: habited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...free four American fliers held for ransom by the Hungarian government, and half the American people criticized the State Department for not being firmer and sending a gunboat or something like Teddy Roosevelt '80 would have done, while other influential quarters critized the State Department simply through force of habit. The negotiators for both sides in Korea thought up some new sets of conditions and called each other a few more variations of scroundel, while the fighting front sputtered sporadically. Andrei Vishinsky suggested the truce talks be moved to the Security Council, where all good disputes...
...recent case of the Soviet spy Andersson (TIME, Nov. 12) has shaken Swedes into realizing that their cellar is not as safe as they had thought. They have shaken off most of the old habit of thought that made the Communists somehow part of the progressive Left. They grapple with the Reds, day by day, election for election, in union meetings and in the workshops. The Communists now poll only 4.8% of the vote...
...will not benefit much by the Key coordination. Planning at least two productions each year, they find that it is financially unfeasible to stage their fall shows before the end of the football season. But other organizations can draw advantage from the Key's effort if they develop the habit of checking with the calendar. The Crimson Key officials themselves intend to post all University functions on the calendar and plan to include the major social events of nearby colleges so that conflict on the big weekends may be avoided...
...successful coup of 1948, supervised the purges that followed, used his power as secretary general to install his own people in vital jobs. He was also Moscow's watchdog, and even kept an eye on President Gottwald himself (who, when he has one drink too many, has a habit of talking sarcastically about Communist bigwigs). At Cominform meetings it was Slansky, not Gottwald, who represented Prague...
...hunters had watched flashing his tail to lure ducks ashore for his morning breakfast. The cross-breeding that first took place in the Little River district of Yarmouth County included collies (for their luxuriant tails), Chesapeake Bay retrievers (for their abilities on the hunt) and spitz (for their playful habit of chasing sticks all day). Somewhere along the line an Irish setter got into the act, donating his bright ruddy color...