Word: habits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even when they learned that there was plenty of food at the monastery, the children stole it from the table; they explained that they couldn't help it. Some still steal. Others who have broken themselves of the habit leave the dining room proudly with their open hands held ostentatiously out from their sides...
Home Front. In Tipton, Okla., Jess Grubb, home from the wars, spotted a man in a tree near his house, grabbed his gun from force of habit, captured an es caped German prisoner...
...more parents were in the habit of taking their offspring over their knee and applying a generous dose of strap oil, we'd all be better," wrote Mrs. T. Scholz. "My three teen-age girls have felt the beneficial sting since way back...
...political comings & goings, punctuated by arrivals of the police to pack Jawaharlal or his father off to jail. Says Krishna, "This was the beginning of a new life-a life of uncertainty, of sacrifice, of heartache. . . . Since then, going in and out of jail has become an incurable habit with most of the members of my family...
...Habit. In Chicago, Mrs. Isabelle Sutoria fainted while walking near her home, lost her purse and $1,468. When police found and returned it to her, she fainted again...