Word: habits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago Tribune. At the same time the leftish monthly Common Sense (cir. 12,500) of which she is publisher and mainstay (estimated annual losses: $25,000), published an article by Milton Mayer. Wrote he: "If the people of Chicago hated the Tribune, they would break the [reading] habit with little difficulty. . . . They know [it] distorts . . . news, omits some more...
...Russian heckler, a Mrs. Barbara Pataleeva, had a habit of rising in meetings to ask if the Marquess had ever done a day's work in his life. He said he'd been in the Army since finishing at Cambridge. Having been in France as a soldier once during this war, he said he expected to go again. That made the voters wonder where he would find the time for both statecraft and fighting, especially since his uncle-in-law, Lieut. Colonel Henry Hunloke, resigned the seat because of the pressure of war duties. They asked...
...Annapolis-educated Lewis Brereton: to umbrella the invasion. Made Companion of the Order of the Bath last November, the General still wears baggy pants and an old sweater under his flying suit. His old habit of turning up unexpectedly at his medium-bomber and fighter stations has a new twist: now he leaves a trail of red printed placards which read "Keep Mobile-Brereton...
Three weeks later Lang was the first American correspondent to enter gutted Naples-just ten minutes behind the advance British reconnaissance cars. (It's a habit with him-last spring Lang and four companions rode into Tunis twelve hours ahead of the Army, pulled up at Nazi headquarters before the last Germans had cleared...
...Embattled. Such men had to have liberty, but to each the word meant a different thing, and to all it meant special privileges. Says Baldwin: ". . . It was inevitable that the historic struggle for English liberty should often be turned into a struggle for supremacy. Liberties had a habit of clashing." And the clashes produced what Baldwin thinks is the keystone of world democracy, the English Common...