Word: habited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...subject usually discussed only in the improbable columns of the Sunday supplements: narcotics addiction. New York City's Superintendent of Schools William Jansen, questioned during a state narcotics investigation, testified that one out of every 200 high-school students in the city are users of habit-forming drugs...
Heroin Hunting. The most startling description of the addict's New York came from a talented 25-year-old, who had made up to $245 a week as a musician, composer and arranger, but had turned to prostitution for extra money because her "habit" demanded 50 to 60 capsules of heroin a day. In her endless search for drugs, almost every corner of the city had become a hunting ground; she named scores of drugstores, bars, restaurants, hotels, schools and nightclubs from The Bronx to Coney Island where she had purchased...
...found a frustrating situation. For, to attract this vigorous young man, a school must get good publicity and be well known. And, it would seem, to be well known in America, a school must sport a set of good teams, particularly football teams. Many schools have slipped into the habit of buying athletes just trying to get a good enough public reputation to attract the scholar-athlete and scholar-leader...
Pair in Tune. This habit of the penguins has long puzzled ornithologists. Richdale's theory is that the ceremonials, which continue throughout the breeding season, are not sexual preliminaries. Their purpose, he thinks, is simply to "attune" the pair. Then, when the female's unborn eggs are just right for fertilization, mating takes place instantly at her signal...
Peyote is the fruit of the mescal cactus (Lophophora williamsii), which grows abundantly in Mexico and in parts of Texas. Dried, the fruits look like buttons of half-dollar size, brown with a pale center. For 15 years the peyote habit has spread. Alarmed as early as 1940, the Navajo Tribal Council outlawed peyote, but the ban could not be enforced. The peyote button had been adopted as a Communion host by the Native American Church, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs, wary of a "religious freedom" issue, refused to interfere...