Word: habits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...under way on the Riviera, where strictly enforced bathing-suit regulations bedecked the bosoms of French society's semi-nude sun cult. In Paris the German military authorities forbade Frenchwomen to use red lacquer on their fingernails on the grounds that it was a demoralizing Jewish-Oriental habit. The Folies-Bergere was scheduled to reopen under German supervision with less exposed anatomy and a German-speaking master of ceremonies...
...colored posters, quarter-page advertisements in 108 newspapers and 72 magazines kept dinning: "Never pass on knowledge about the place or extent of air-raid damage; don't trust enemy broadcasts and don't discuss them with others; if you know somebody who makes a habit of causing worry and anxiety by passing on rumor, tell the police; if it's true, the enemy can use it-if it's not true, the enemy is using...
...trained, fully equipped army of 2,000,000. For such a job, even 1,200,000 men-45 infantry divisions, plus eight armored and six cavalry divisions-is not enough. General Marshall doesn't mind saying so out loud, although he deprecates democracy's habit of blabbing its military secrets in peacetime. Says he: "We're playing poker with everyone looking at our hand...
...call each other comrade and urge their Negro maids to attend Communist rallies on their nights off. This triumph brought special inconveniences in its train. Workers asked few questions. But the intelligentsia were the most inquisitive and prying converts the Marxists had ever made: they were in the habit of reading about every new ism they embraced. They wanted to read about Communism too. There was very little to read...
...Tutoring, as it is applied in the colleges of today, is a bad habit to get into for the future," declared Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt recently, in a statement for the Daily Princetonian...