Word: habits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...came again, youths of the Army would be seduced into swilling beer at taverns near their camps. God forbid, said the ladies, that World War II should produce a nation of beer drinkers. Weren't things bad enough, with the U.S. overrun with cigaret smokers who got the habit in World...
...when things went badly at Kota Bahru Airdrome (TIME, Dec. 22), the end had seemed as inevitable as death from an incurable disease. And so, toward the end, Singapore's society, like a dying person already long acquainted with death, went mechanically on with the trivia of daily habit...
...their critics was not going to help them figure out the war for themselves. Said Edward Murrow: "Somehow, it's impossible to escape the conclusion that we do not yet understand the dominant position of the United States in world affairs. We have not yet acquired the habit of world leadership. Some of us are reluctant to accept the greatness that has been thrust upon us, but we have no choice...
Walter Lippmann had said that there cannot be a high U.S. morale "unless and until Mr. Roosevelt forms the habit of confiding in the American people as Mr. Churchill confides in the British people...
Undoubtedly the situation is intensified because most of the colored soldiers in the South are from the North, and are not prepared for the bitterness of discrimination there. To them the fact that they are colored has meant discomforts, but never degradation and violence. The habit of an unfortunate prejudice must be met with compromise, but there is no rhyme nor reason in the present policy, which is pregnant with trouble and unnecessary bitterness. It is bad enough that the U. S. Military system should allow Joe Louis to contribute $47,100 to an organization which refuses him permission...