Word: habits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reputation was at its most unsavory low; in the past 19 months three boxers have died of injuries suffered in New York rings. The International Boxing Club, which controls the boxing arenas (and therefore the boxers) in most big U.S. cities, was under heavy fire for its habit of refusing fights to boxers who do not sign an exclusive contract with I.B.C. And Congress was getting ready for a full investigation of I.B.C.'s monopoly...
Since the founding of their order 20 years ago, the sisters of the Roman Catholic Society of Christ Our King have worn a habit patterned after that of the Carmelite nuns. On the order's farm at Danville, Va., this has led to practical difficulties, e.g., flowing sleeves get in the way when the sisters drive their Dodge truck. Last week the tiny sisterhood (nine members) had a brand-new habit. Its designer: Manhattan's Hattie Carnegie...
Iron Man (Universal-International) seems bent on proving that if a man has a bad enough temper, he can become heavyweight champion of the world. Jeff Chandler, a coal miner whose only real ambitions are to marry Evelyn Keyes and own a radio store, has a nasty habit of going efficiently berserk when anyone mocks him. Egged on by his sweetheart and ne'er-do-well brother (Stephen McNally), Chandler soon bowls over all the local heavyweights and moves on to the big city. Booed by the fans as a dirty fighter and damned by the newspapers...
...near the Grecian wisdom-it has no fruit but only blossoms") and flavor their love of practical purpose with a dash of the gentile gift for the fanciful. Gentiles, on the other hand, might do well to stop hymning their capacity for "the purest intuitions," which have a nasty habit of emerging in the form of "mob spirit...
Serag el Din and Madame Nahas occasionally do the nightclub circuit around Cairo. This produces a set routine: just as they come to the side entrance, the lights have a habit of failing, then coming on as soon as they are safely seated behind a couple of partially obscuring potted palms...