Word: habited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Confusion of Rulers. "The world knows it, the world which witnesses the sad parade of our political fair; the French people feel it, including those who, by habit, passion or interest have fought my efforts and who hide their remorse under reproaches or insults. Events prove it: the tragedy of the budget, economic stagnation, social injustices, trouble in North Africa, reverses in Indo-China, the lethargy of the nation, the confusion of the rulers who deliver to the foreigner the tattered remnants of a sovereignty which they can no longer bear...
...habit read the news...
...Bowron (as he claims) is "The Nation's Most Respected Mayor" [April 20], such respect must be centered east of the Rockies in the vicinity of TIME'S editorial offices. We have never had the "habit" of respecting highhanded political "tactics" here...
Actually, the United Party also favors white supremacy, but argues that the Malanites are too fanatical, and that their harsh segregation laws cost the country nearly $50 million a year. Strauss, the well-meaning United Party leader who has a bad habit of always sounding on the defensive, assured everyone that if his party wins, "the deliberate Communists will be dealt with by the courts. We will make Communism high treason. In extreme cases, Communists will be hanged...
...Much for Mules? In 1896, Presidential Candidate McKinley asked Dawes to handle his campaign funds. Dawes raised and spent the formidable sum of $37562,325.59. From then on, U.S. Presidents got the habit of calling on Charley Dawes. In World War I, he handled the purchase of more than ten million ship tons of supplies for Europe. Under Harding, he was an economizing Director of the Budget, ran his own bureau for almost half of its $225,000 appropriation ("We took our own medicine"). Under Hoover, he served as Ambassador to Britain and helped to draft the Administration...