Word: habits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...merit of an air force that is part of the Navy with which it operates is that it is bound to cooperate with the fleet in action. The demerit of that relationship is that the development of the vital air arm may be retarded by seagoing officers who by habit think in terms of water rather than air fighting...
...London Sunday Express: "Do we even now understand that we are at death grips in a fight for our lives? We do not. . . . These crowds of people . . . were symptoms of a fatal frame of mind. Their peril and their fate were at the back of that mind. Custom and habit were at the front of it. . . . If the cause of the shut down is lack of raw materials, then a sad situation exists. If the cause is 'holiday is as usual,' then a scandalous situation exists...
Painter Martín is a true product of La Boca. A foundling, he was adopted as a child by a coal heaver, Manuel Quinquela. He grew to boyhood with an incorrigible habit of messing up the Quinquela home with coal and charcoal, drawing soot-colored pictures wherever he could find a clean space. The Quinquelas finally went to the parish priest about it. The priest bought the boy drawing materials, told him to make his drawings on paper instead. Quinquela Martín, completely self-taught, became renowned throughout La Boca for his drawings; his reputation spread...
Emerson is Matthiessen's toughest assignment "because of his inveterate habit of stating things in opposites." He all but worshiped Plato's ability to reconcile fact and abstraction, spent his life in a ceaseless effort to do likewise. That effort made him what he said of Goethe: "The cow from which the rest drew their milk." His conceptions of "the infinitude of the private man," of the equality of all souls, of content as above expression (to the point of windy disregard for expression), of the poet as seer or prophet, of the intuitive moment as final knowledge...
...bagger down the third base line after Sandy MacMillan had flied out to Jim McTernan in left. Al Everts took one of Neville's offerings on the shoulder and strolled down to first, loading the bases. Just at this crucial moment, Ned Fitzgibbons came through, as he has a habit of doing, and rapped a long single to deep center, sending Berg and O'Donnell to the plate...