Word: habits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They got to saying "rather" and "actually" and succumbed to the English habit of afternoon tea-though without altering their G.I. dinner time, so that 5:30 dinner followed 4 o'clock tea with indecent and indigestible haste. They went punting on the Cam, played rugger with Cantabrigians (and lost), American football (and won), debated in the Cambridge Union Society and acted in the Amateur Dramatic Club...
...This," says Santayana, "is a strange picture, and I am not sure that the Catholic Church is pledged to accept it." He thinks that the traditional concept of immortality "is simply a misunderstanding, perhaps a verbal misunderstanding only, of inevitable but clumsy metaphors. . . . Illusion comes in . . . when the ingrained habit of speaking metaphorically congeals into an incapacity not to think mythically...
Where Shall the U.S. Stand? Said Vandenberg: "There is a line beyond which compromise cannot go. ... But how can we expect our alien friends to know where that line is unless we reestablish the habit of saying only what we mean and meaning every word...
Another publisher, more of a merchant than a crusader, died last week at 85. Gardner Cowles of Des Moines, a small town Iowa banker who turned to publishing at 42, made a fetish of circulation, made his fair, unexciting Register and Tribune an Iowa habit. Sons Gardner Jr. ("Mike") and John, more journalistically adventurous than their father, have spread the Cowles empire into the Minneapolis field, into five radio stations, a feature syndicate, Look magazine...
Ignoring the pickets, habit-bound Charlie plodded off with his milk-laden wagon on the complicated route he had traveled for 15 years. Early risers saw him turn the right corners, stop at the right houses, wait a few moments at each before moving...