Word: habits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Attorney Harry Sacher said the judge tried to "negate" defense statements by his gestures. The way Sacher described them: "You scratched your head and pulled your ear." "When I scratch my head I'm just plain scratching my head," laughed Medina. "I have a habit of doing that and I'm not going to change it just because you don't like...
Switching careers is an old habit with Sell, who never finished Culver Military Academy but has succeeded at almost everything else he ever tried. He has been glove salesman, reporter, interior decorator, nightclub promoter and vitamin manufacturer. He turned out a slogan ("Have you been taking your vitamins?") that helped make vitamins big business, and wrote a book on home furnishings that sold 100,000 copies. He wears the Legion of Honor for promoting French fashions...
...husband publicly insulted her whenever he had an opportunity. On his accession to the throne, he had their marriage annulled. But Jeanne never ceased praying for his soul. She founded the Order of the Annunciades; later she herself took the order's vows and wore its habit under her clothes. After she died in 1505, at the age of 40, many healing miracles were attributed to her, and Roman Catholics have long regarded her as a saint...
Funds are derived from a 12% social security levy on payrolls, half contributed by employees and half by employers. Patients may choose any doctor. Doctors merely sign forms with which patients claim reimbursement from their insurance. By now an ingrained habit, the principle of health insurance is beyond political argument...
...cocked eyebrow, a smirk, even a suggestive pause in speech can make the censorious heart skip a beat. In Chicago, NBC's Bill Ray complained: "You just can't trust nightclub funnymen. They've been pulling objectionable stuff so long, it's a habit they can't break." Old movies, which have become a TV mainstay, are also a TV headache. Made before the days of the Hays Office, such old films as The Sheik and The Son of the Sheik have a straightforward approach in their love scenes that shocks televiewers raised on tidied...