Word: habited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more than 50 of his 60 years, Sarnoff has been doing just that. Driving through obstacles is his habit, his joy, his bitter necessity. He says: "There are three drives that rule most men: money, sex and power." Nobody doubts that Sarnoff's ruling drive is power. Says a deputy: "There is no question about it, he is the god over here...
...friend Paul Hoffman. As a result, he would go right on being a European expert-but this time at home in Pasadena, Calif., center of year-round marbles, and a place where Johnny's three-year-old brother, Peter, could be cured of the un-American habit of speaking better French than English...
Thumb-sucking is a hotly controversial subject. Most psychologists believe (and most dentists strongly disagree) that the danger of mental damage in breaking a child of the habit is greater than the danger of dental damage from allowing it. The experts' quarrel leaves the mother in a dilemma...
...July Journal of the American Dental Association, Dentist Edward S. Mack of San Francisco puts in a strong case for the do-something-about-it school. He admits that interfering with the habit causes frustration. But, he argues, so does toilet training or teaching a child not to lie and steal. "Compared to the intensity of frustration involved in [these] necessary frustrations," says Dr. Mack, "the correction of thumb-sucking hardly bears mentioning . . . And . . . this habit . . . produces a penalty of subsequent deformity out of all proportion to the crime." Besides pushing the teeth out of place, he says, thumb-sucking...
...Decided that while yearly federal aid for hard-up medical schools would be bad (it might be habit-forming), the Government could properly help out with lump sums for construction programs...