Word: habits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cost of about $10 billion a year [TIME, Feb. 25]. And you raise the question: is it American? May I, one of the few German anti-militarists, give you an answer? Surely it's not American. It is pure Prussian militarism. . . . Generals and admirals are not in the habit of retiring willingly from their gilded honors into grey civilian life. The American people were able to create within two years the finest and most powerful army, navy and air force ever seen in history, besides stuffing their Allies with war materials. What then is the use of maintaining...
When a group of highbinding Chicago contractors tried to get the better of the sisters in remodeling a hotel into a hospital, the little Italian nun fired them out of hand, tucked up her habit, and stumped about the scaffoldings for weeks directing the laborers herself. She was an American after America's heart, and in 1909, in her 59th year, she became a U.S. citizen...
...pretend that we knew far more than we did; so with perfect courtesy and gravity, he would ask our opinion on some matter of which we knew next to nothing; and we knew it was only his exquisiteness of good manners that impelled the habit. . . . To fail him in some task [became] the one thing most abhorrent in dealing with such a man-a discourtesy...
Cuthbert Clegg, who strives to keep his cotton mill modern, is a rarity among millowners in the "Black Country." Many a third-or fourth-generation industrial family is as encrusted with habit and stifling tradition as their mill towns, nestling like ugly blackheads on the face of one of England's greenest regions, are encrusted with soot and smoke...
...Brooklyn Dodgers were two games out in front. One man who had a lot to do with it was a wartime pickup who wasn't very big, had only a fair arm and couldn't outrun his grandmother. But Ed ("The Brat") Stanky, 28, has the Dodger habit of getting into fights (which is good box office) and a high talent for getting bases-on-balls (which is good baseball...