Word: habited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dust jacket of a new book ' that has just landed on the shelves of book stores in the U.S. shows the marching feet of a group of G.I.s and, among the soldiers, a marcher in nun's habit. Inside, the book opens with a first chapter that is largely about TIME. This rather unlikely combination occurs in GI Nun (P. J. Kenedy & Sons; $4.50), the story of Sister Mary Xavier Coens, B.V.M., and a troupe of girls she took to Europe for the U.S.O. in the summer of 1964 to entertain U.S. servicemen...
...works have since the days of Brecht and Weil, "A Day in the Life" provides a strange, new, jolting way of looking at the familiarities of modern life, so habit-forming that they are no longer disillusioning...
...major extent the problem of the university's programs can only be solved by its faculties. Changes in organization can be made more easily than can those of style and process which are the products of experience and long habit. The needs of the country require, however, that this task be undertaken by the Faculties of the University of Vietnam. Institutional and personal styles must change and greater use must be made of a variety of teaching methods...
Rampant though nepotism is, it represents only a part of the corruption that permeates the Philippines from top to bottom. Today's generation was taught to steal from those in authority as a matter of patriotic duty in the chaotic wartime years of Japanese occupation, and the habit has lingered on. Kickbacks, voting-place vandalism, judge buying and customhouse connivance are still the fashion. At a busy Manila intersection, a white-uniformed traffic cop waves through the traffic. As each passenger-laden taxi passes by, a hand shoots out and deftly deposits something in the cop's cupped...
Fiscal & Physical. Success has become a habit with Jonathan Logan. The firm is the nation's largest dressmaker, with anticipated 1967 sales of $210 million. And Richard Schwartz, since succeeding his father in 1964 as chief executive officer, has emerged as the David Merrick of the business. The twelve divisions that make up his organization provide a dress for just about any figure, fiscal as well as physical...