Word: habits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Behind the darkened windows of his official residence, Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye, grave-faced beyond his habit, looked at the frowning, worried men of his Cabinet. He told them that the Emperor had accepted their resignation. Then they departed. They, too, were thoughtful. This, they knew, was the end of Japan's effort to compromise with destiny...
Last year London staved off blitzes and worried. Last week it breathed easily and all too complacently while Russia bore the brunt of Hitler's attack. Last year London worried over Winston Churchill's habit of walking around during raids, listened to Parliament jump from one major war issue to another. Last week London watched Winston Churchill and 75,000 other people whisk off to Wembley for the year's biggest football match (England downed Scotland 2-to-0), winced as the House of Commons wrangled testily over whether or not R.A.F. officers should smoke pipes...
Ordnance's chief, Major General Charles Macon Wesson, has a habit of waving away criticism without answering it. He has also been rightly accused of being over-complacent about a job that is good, but certainly not tops, as the U.S. figures technical performance. Last week "Bull" Wesson was just back from a visit to London to see what Britain was doing in his line of business. (Said he to a pretty girl abed in an air-raid shelter: "Really I ought to kiss a girl like you good night-but I'm a family...
...Morphine is habit-forming partly because it makes the body's smooth muscles (such as those in intestinal walls) consume more oxygen. According to F. E. Shideman and Maurice Harrison Seevers of the University of Wisconsin, this oxygen consumption continues for several days after morphine has been stopped and may bring on the agonizing cramps of which deprived addicts complain...
Throughout the amazing interior is a collection of museum pieces and antiques the result of an unfortunate habit of 'Poon alumni of storing their attic overflows in the Sanctum. A fine suit of medieval Japanese armor stands at the south window of the Great Hall, and has occasionally been donned by the President during police raids. The window itself contains pieces of 14th century stained glass from the Church of St. Augustine at Canterbury, England. Across the room in a serious Frisian grandfather clock of the 17th century, and the Elizabethan mantlepiece next to it has not been dusted since...