Word: habited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tradition" dies not necessarily imply the colorful fluttering of Tree Day or the hub-bub of hooprolling, but a certain pattern of conformity that the Wellesley girl, in spite of her acclamation of freedom, slips into until the habit becomes a part of the responsibility...
...various times in the history of the University, students have been forced to accept more controlled clothing rules. In 1789, the "Committee for Uniformity of Studente's Habit" required of all freshmen the wearing of blue-grey woolen coats and "waistcoats and breeches of the same colour...
Between terms, when Danny seemed to be away from the habit, he got married. Before the first baby was a year old, Danny was shot up again. When his wife left him he tried to commit suicide. And so back to Lexington...
...first anniversary of Narcotics Anonymous, Danny could report on about 80 addicts who had tried mutual-aid, group therapy. Six had stayed drugfree for a year or more, five more have been free for a shorter time. Ten are known to have slipped back into the habit ; so, probably, have most of the 60 who cannot be traced...
Numerically, it was a small beginning. But the group in Manhattan, (and others being formed in Chicago, Los Angeles and Vancouver) offered new hope to men who had suffered the agonies of withdrawal at Lexington or at the similar P.H.S. hospital at Fort Worth, only to fall into the habit* again. Says Danny, whose downfall began with an earache 25 years ago: "I've been a burden to the Government most of my life. Now I can repay my debt...