Word: habits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After war's end, he was made president of the Dodge division, has had a finger in more & more corporate pies and a habit of working at high-compression speed. If Chrysler President K. T. Keller, who will be 65 this fall, should decide to retire, it looked as if Tex Colbert would be among the leading candidates to succeed...
There are other things, little things, that count. Some Frenchmen continue to address adult Vietnamese in the familiar "tu"-a pronoun which in French is reserved for children, intimates and riffraff. This habit could be uprooted with slight effort...
...demand for American news of the war and its corollary events has even revived a deplorable wartime habit: waiters in some cafes have again taken to looking over your shoulder if you happen to be reading the news...
...liquor that whole villages are sometimes knocked out for days at a time. The United Nations commission for technical assistance to Bolivia, currently investigating all phases of Bolivian life, has just about decided that drinking is the country's No. 1 social evil, surpassing even the coca-chewing habit...
...last week. Whenever his challenger, Italy's Tiberio Mitri, lunged off balance in the ring at New York's Madison Square Garden, Gentleman Jake stepped back and let him recover. When the fight was over, LaMotta had won a unanimous decision, but the crowd booed him from habit just the same. Said a plaintive LaMotta next day: "I know the fans don't like me because of my poor fights with Billy Fox and Robert Villemain. But I'm turning over a new leaf. I've got a psychologist, and he's advising...