Word: habits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wisconsinites liked his forthrightness, his willingness to talk turkey on any issue, his habit of holding informal question-&-answer periods after every formal talk. Meanwhile the well-trained Stassen organization bombarded voters with letters and telephone calls, turned out with their cars on election day to get the Stassen votes to the polls. Beyond that, Harold Stassen had the support and vote-getting pull of Senator Joe McCarthy and former GOP State Chairman Tom Coleman. When the votes were counted, Harold Stassen had propelled himself into the front rank of GOPresidential candidates...
...tried to break up his meetings. "They had a technique," he says. "They'd gradually move forward as if absorbed by what I was saying. Then they would ask increasingly menacing questions. When they had you against the wall, you were in their hands. I developed a habit of talking from near a window, with the window at my back. That gave me two advantages: I could see the faces of my enemies, and I could jump out of the window if they reached...
...sympathetic federal prosecutor, the "worst type of parasite you can imagine" used to follow her around, charge $100 a dose for narcotics they sold to other addicts for as little as $5. By that time, Billie was looking gaunt, singing badly, and had fallen into the exasperating habit of walking out on waiting audiences without explanation...
Victory had become a habit with Nell. Since her first race in competition, six years ago (in which she placed second), she has never been beaten, now holds more titles than she can remember. One reason for her endurance: during wartime in German-occupied Holland, she lived most of the time with friends and relatives in the country, pedaled a bicycle on 100-mile trips to visit her home in Amsterdam...
...appointed Agents will send a letter to members of the Class of '48 within the next week for contributions to the Fund. According to McCord, the object is not to raise large sums of money from a class about to graduate, but merely to get the men "in the habit of giving...