Word: habits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese radio, devious by habit and well coached by the Nazis, could boast several propaganda exploits. It cut in on the Far Eastern beam of California's KGEI to give phony "flashes" on the "bombing" of San Francisco. It presented an American "Lady Haw-Haw" to inform America of the "annihilation" of the U.S. fleet. Last week it fished for U.S. listeners by promising to announce the names of prisoners "as soon as they are available" -i.e., in driblets, to keep the audience tuned...
Snow, shovels, stalled cars, slippery sidewalks and frost-bitten cars were actual proof to many that Chapel Hill, although in the old South, does possess the common Northern habit...
...Marquand has told his story three times (the others: The Late George Apley, Wickford Point); Director King Vidor had only one shot at his. His ending is box office, his story not sharply pointed, but he does manage to convey the airless but comfortable feeling of Boston, the pitifully habit-bound horizon of his Pulham (Robert Young), and to turn out a half-dozen sequences that are superb cinema...
This lazy call to the colors is far surpassed, however, by all six articles. In a readable style greatly improved over his previous contribution to the Guardian, Edward Ames '42 warns liberals of the "Lean Years" that the war will bring, and urges them not to develop a habit of slighting labor, as a result of the war effort...
...German "housemaids, grocery clerks, beauty-parlor operators, nurses, chauffeurs, opera singers, bookkeepers," who lived abroad. Their work: In weekly reports, the answering of "hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands" of questions: questions not only military and economic, but intimately worming forth the subtlest anthropological details of civilian psychology, habit, morale. This information was screened for its gold-dust in the consulates, and sent where it would do the most good...