Word: habits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unable to break a long standing habit, Powell works mostly at night, most of the time flat on his back because he is still too weak to sit up more than an hour a day. One night he almost suffered a serious eye injury when a heavy book fell from his hands as he dozed...
...took a really veteran Western Union messenger boy, Russel T. Mann, who has been at his job since early 1939, to remember that people in prewar days had the tipping habit. "Hell, we never get any now," said a young and disgusted bicycle courrier...
...sell goods for money, and will even lend our customers the money to buy them at the risk that they may not pay the debt in cash. But to let them repay with their own goods, which might compete in our markets with our products, goes against our whole habit of thinking...
...country was the country of the . . . 'petit bourgeois' spirit. . . . The arrival of the Americans, their methods, their supplies, helped considerably to upset their [Frenchmen's] ideas. They got into the habit of counting in billions...
...radio performers have made more broadcasts. They were radio's first great national program. They were the chief instigators of the habit of listening to a fixed program night after night. They were the great American institution of blackface comedy at its greatest spread and financial return. Their droll dramatizations, a blend of simple narrative interest and skillful characterization, caught the Negro attitude and idiom without burlesque...