Word: habits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Admission. Tiebout thinks that for such characters, standard psychotherapy -building up the patient's ego and self-confidence-is sadly misplaced. He is convinced that an alcoholic who stubbornly tries to defeat the habit all by himself is sure to fail. A.A.'s major discovery, says the psychiatrist, is that the first essential step is the alcoholic's admission that alone he is helpless against alcohol...
Amidone itself is definitely habit-forming. Because a single factory could produce more amidone than the total world supply of morphine, the doctors warned that the drug must be rigidly controlled; it might become a major health menace...
...History's most talkative addict was Thomas De Quincey (The Confessions of an English Opium Eater), who took laudanum (like morphine, derived from opium). He yielded to the habit four times in 40 years, finally cured himself by tapering off, the most painful cure...
...Chinese government needed a field general with the habit of success. Last week Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek thought he had found just the man. To the post of military commander for all North China, with headquarters in Peiping, he called bulletheaded, bland-eyed, 53-year-old General Fu Tso-yi from his "pacification" command in Chahar...
...Andrew Patrick David, but "to my family I was and always have been 'David.'" He recalled "the great Queen" as an old lady in a white tulle cap, black satin dress and "shiny black shoes with elastic sides. But what fascinated me most about her was her habit of taking breakfast in little revolving huts [in the grounds of her residences, Windsor, Balmoral and Osborne] mounted on turntables so that they could be faced away from the wind. Weather permitting, she would ride over to these shelters in a little carriage drawn by a white pony...