Word: habits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...raise his hand; Vishinsky nudged him: "Hey, pay attention." Fifty-seven times, as he voted "abstention," Cannon's arm shot up like a railroad signal gone wild; the 58th time (when the draft as a whole was put to the vote) he voted "no" but was, from habit, listed as abstaining again. He rose to his last skirmish: "Mr. Chairman, there has been an error . . ." Vishinsky murmured impatiently: "All right, all right." Cannon sat down again...
...twice in its history-once 30 years ago, when a flash flood washed away half the scenery and instruments on opening night, and once during the depression. Both times the backers were paid back within two years. One big reason is that their summer opera has become a family habit for St. Louisans-from grandma to the kids. Another reason-and perhaps a bigger one-is the quality of its performances. Even a foreign critic from Dallas recently admitted that St. Louis' Municipal Opera is to summer operetta companies "what the Metropolitan is to grand opera." Unlike...
Editor Brucker's remedy for the U.S. editorial page would probably be too drastic for many publishers: newspapers must break "the habit . . . of attaching themselves to one of the major political parties. This is a hangover from the days when there were many papers, each speaking for a particular faction. Today, when we have few papers, it is their obligation not to be a Dr. Goebbels for any group . . . Our journalistic Jeremiahs must breathe more hellfire and damnation than ever. Only they need to get all the facts, and not just some of them, first...
...take any advice from your butcher . . . You are in a rut and won't try anything new so we are getting out of the habit of suggesting things. We sure are tired of hearing you complain about tough meats ... If you take the toughest piece of meat and rub it well with any citrus fruit, leave it in the refrigerator overnight, then slow-cook it, you will be delighted with its tenderness and flavor...
After the race, Patton usually goes quietly under the stands and gets sick. Says he: "It's gotten to be a damn bad habit...