Word: habits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...manager, a man with the habit of obedience to authority, lined up his underlings. The man with the arm band produced a bottle of colorless liquid and barked: "Drink this before locking the vaults." No one thought to ask why an anti-dysentery potion is not just as effective when a bank's vaults are locked. Obediently they gulped the medicine and collapsed in agony...
...undergraduate of 1873 had a pleasant life, so it was not surprising that he was a conservative through and through. When the chapel was being repaired during the winter of 1873, and the compulsory attendance order was temporarily lifted, the students still came in droves, whether out of habit or devotion...
...basic skill of our world, and it is one you learn getting 200 inches of copy downstairs to Art before one o'clock. As a useful byproduct you learn to turn night into day. In the daily working of the CRIMSON office comment books a man acquires the habit of candor, of free-swinging criticism, of speaking his mind: a good thing. Nowhere else in the college is the flamboyance of high school prose so thoroughly smashed; the rudeness of your peers does it, that and seeing your staff in print. A man learns to write, if not well...
...Force of Habit. In Syracuse, N.Y., when his wife shouted, "Stop that this instant!" a would-be suicide obediently cut himself down...
Friendly helpers were always at hand to clear up awkward points. Example: Tito's habit of taxing a citizen not according to how much he earns but according to how he earns it and "what contributions he's making to the society in which he lives." Author St. John was assured that this rather personal form of taxation was necessary because New Yugoslavia is "trying to feel her way slowly," and just hasn't got around to framing tax laws. In fact, says St. John, Tito is being so conscientiously slow that Yugoslavia "is actually operating without...