Word: habited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...needed a vacation. During the Middle East and Hungarian crises he had developed a nervous habit of awakening at 4 or 4:30 a.m. to jot down on a scratch pad the ideas that were flickering through his mind. When he first arrived in Augusta the wind was chilly, the skies were grey, and his golf score-usually a good thermometer of his physical and mental tone -was infuriatingly high. He suddenly realized that he was very tired, and planned a careful schedule to replenish his strength. By last week the clouds had cleared, the temperature rose into...
...Coactus Feci." Mindszenty had been expecting his arrest. It came on the day after Christmas, in 1948, when 16 political policemen armed with automatic rifles took him to their notorious Andrassy Street headquarters, stripped him of his breviary, rosary and religious habit. "For 16 days and nights they hammered at me, squeezed me with questions. My interrogators worked in shifts . . . They tortured both my soul and my body...
...later, dropping him off at Princeton, his parents told his freshman adviser: "We've got. to return to India. Please look after this boy." Little care was needed. Goheen made both the varsity soccer team and Phi Beta Kappa. After a year of graduate study, he carried the habit of success into the Army, rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Ist Cavalry Division in the Pacific...
...Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce such requests are all in a day's work. But each year more and more of them have come in, until the chamber must now handle more than 1,000 a month. Indeed, this sort of letter writing has become something of a national habit-and it is causing many a business and Government executive to wonder just what U.S. teachers...
...Will Flop." Both chambers of commerce and corporations try conscientiously to answer the letters they get. Up to a point, they welcome and even encourage the letter-writing habit on the theory that today's pupils will be tomorrow's customers and tourists. But the whole thing is getting out of hand. Says William H. P. Smith of the Boston chamber: "We're just swamped with this mail from kids. Most of the information they ask for they could find in any World Almanac, sometimes even in a phone book." "Some of our teachers," says Executive Director...