Word: habited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...economic dictatorship. Behind this move were men who are neither Fascists nor Communists, but deputies of the vigorously pro-democratic Labor Party, which has ruled Norway for 18 years; the same men who battled the Nazis in 1940 and brought Norway into NATO in 1949. Antitotalitarian by conviction and habit, they nonetheless hurried their hardscrabble land toward an economy which Norway's angry businessmen liken to that of Nazi Germany or a Red satellite...
...future war or depression . . . it is a very honest attempt to meet the problems that might arise," the man in the street sees the sincerity of Brofoss' remark but misses its naiveté. Another obstacle, said a bitter Norwegian shipowner, was too much reliance on skippertak, the Norwegian habit of procrastinating until the last minute and then hustling to set matters aright. This time, when the last minute came, there was no skippertak...
Strangely, even while TV boomed, the big movies, e.g., Quo Vadis and The Greatest Show on Earth, were doing a bigger business than ever. But the ones that cost only a million dollar or so were hardly paying their way. The "habit public" had deserted to television. Last year most of the major studios barely managed to show a profit, and their position was dangerous because they were stuck with tremendous plants which they no longer needed to make the few pictures that brought in the big green...
...mother superior hardly knew what to make of it. Here was a nun in her 20s, an attractive French girl with a wisp of brown hair sticking out from under the light blue veil of her habit, walking about alone in the streets of Madrid. What the nun told the mother superior, in a combination of French and halting Spanish, was almost equally surprising: she had come from Aix-en-Provence to establish the first house of her order, the Little Sisters of Jesus, in Spain. She asked the mother superior of the Casa de la Virgen for hospitality until...
...former mayor of Jerusalem's Old City: "Our . . . friendship has been imperiled by the Truman Administration, which not only created Israel but has been keeping it as a thorn in our side." Replied Dulles: "At home we Americans heatedly debate many issues, but we are not in the habit of criticizing one another outside the country. I therefore cannot agree with your criticism of a former American Administration." At a candlelight dinner at U.S. Ambassador Joseph Green's, young King Hussein, attired in a dinner jacket, bounded in like an American teen-ager come to pick...