Word: habits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mind on warships. He has a wife, as retiring as the Admiral is not, and a son, Alain, who recently quit the Navy, where he had been a code officer, in favor of the insurance business. Social superiors of Darlan like to call attention to his French-bourgeois habit of wearing a wing collar, which has earned him the nickname of "The Tax Collector." But all this the Admiral can and does ignore. "I am a dur and have a tough skull," he has said...
...same trick. If a five-grain tablet of aspirin is added, any pain can be dulled for four hours. Dr. Wolff urged his colleagues to return to the use of whiskey for "persons suffering continuously," especially cancer victims. Said he: "It is cheaper than morphine. ... Of course alcohol is habit-forming but an alcohol habit is less difficult to deal with than a morphine habit...
...HABIT OF EMPIRE-Paul Morgan-Harper ($2). An intense mural of hardship, Indian-fighting and Catholic-imperial psychology in colonial New Mexico before the Pilgrims landed in Massachusetts. A little stiff, but exciting and superbly written, its spare, leisured 114 pages should embarrass most space-wasting historical novelists...
...Representative Frank Wheeler Mondell of Wyoming: "A typical Congressman in appearance and habit, Mr. Mondell was audible and visible, but nothing else. His trousers were too long and he lacked personality...
...outfit turned out of bed at 3 a.m. and got ready to move. By dawn the whole outfit was rumbling south toward Florida on parallel roads. In approach-to-battle formation, trucks rumbled 100 yards apart; machine gunners stood with their eyes on the skies getting the habit of watching for planes; soldiers of the three infantry regiments rode in trucks (soon to be replaced by 603 troop carriers with caterpillar treads). Each infantry outfit was followed by a battalion of artillery with 75-mm. guns (soon to be replaced by the new 105-mm. howitzers). Farther back came...