Word: habits
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Keynote. Yet an air of solid habit had begun to pervade U.N.'s halls. Faces grew familiar. Delegates had learned their way to conference rooms, bars and washrooms. Recently, when an ultra-orthodox Moslem member of the Egyptian delegation spread his prayer rug just off the press bar, nobody paid any attention (except a helpful British journalist who told the Moslem which way was east...
...ECOSOC (Economic & Social Council) was riding off in all directions. Its Narcotic Drugs Commission discussed the establishment of a commission to investigate the effects of the coca leaf-chewing habit, prevalent in some Latin American countries. Its Committee on One Day's Pay Proposal was proposing a committee to propose that all the world's citizens donate one day's pay for needy mothers & children. ECOSOC has 17 other commissions and subcommissions...
Chief of Criminal Police Georges Clot recalled that Houdard had been in the Maquis. "He had to live off the land; that meant that often he did things that were not exactly legal. He doesn't seem to have gotten out of the habit...
...country was also being visited by a plague of annoying and unannounced nickel, dime and dollar jumps in the price of all kinds of small goods and services. Restaurant prices were developing a habit of rising as much as 10? to 50? overnight. Some radio repairmen were charging more to peer into a receiving set than a physician asked for a sick call. It even cost more to go broke-the fee for filing bankruptcy papers in U.S. district courts went up from...
Even the most loyal of Ebbets Field fans has a hard time forgiving the Brooklyn Dodgers' worst habit: just about this time of year, when they seem to be heading for the pennant, they have a tendency to run out of steam. Last year, as in 1942, it was the St. Louis Cardinals who took the flag away from them. Last week the first-place Dodgers and the second-place Cards met in a crucial three-game series. By the time the series had ended, it looked as if the Dodgers might have cured their old weakness, would have...