Word: habits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Certainly Alaska deserves statehood, but your story and the popular Ice Palace (Edna Ferber might still have the bestselling habit, but she certainly does not have the feel for Alaska) fail to convey the warmth and fighting spirit which govern the people...
Though he is supposed to be serving as Senate spokesman for the Administration and the Republican Party, California's Minority Leader William Fife Knowland has an apparently incurable habit of throwing his burly body in the way of Administration proposals. He persisted in his ways even after he became a half-lame duck by deciding to resign from the Senate and run for Governor of California next November. And his poor showing in California's popularity-poll primaries last fortnight failed to subdue him. Hours after he got back to Washington he blocked the Administration on the issue...
Looking at the struggles in Algeria, in Cyprus and in Lebanon, where the flames of violence danced high, headline writers and editorial writers and TV commentators, out of weary habit born of a decade of cold war, tended to reduce all these struggles to a single, naked question: Who's winning, the West or the Russians...
Finally, according to Peter D. Schultz '52, Secretary of the Alumni Association, "The dollar sign does loom pretty big." The Alumni Association, through the Harvard Fund Council, headed by poet David T.W. McCord '21, tries to encourage the "habit of annual giving...
...morning, indulged in two-hour-long hot baths, delighted in being rubbed down with Eau de Cologne by his valet. At work he tipped back in his chair, whittled away with a penknife on the arm of a chair. In council meetings he made such a habit of pilfering snuffboxes that his ministers resorted to bringing their snuff in cardboard boxes. Worried about becoming fat, Napoleon stoked himself through the day with licorice flavored with anisette. He bolted his breakfast, wolfed dinner in only 15 to 20 minutes...