Word: habits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drug is not habit-forming, and Federal law does not prevent its shipment, but Massachusetts outlaws it as a harmful drug...
...preconscious level: "Americans smoke to prove they are people of virile maturity. They see smoking as proving their vigor, potency." This, explained Social Research, "is a psychological satisfaction sufficient to overcome health fears, to withstand moral censure, ridicule, or even the paradoxical weakness of 'enslavement to habit.' " Youngsters who smoke are trying to be older, the MR men concluded, and older people who do so are trying to be younger...
...California, 70 small spiders (Zilla x-notata) are living in pampered luxury. Their room is air-conditioned, and every day delicious flies are handed to them alive. They have little paper cones to live in and water to drink from cups made of soda straws. Being creatures of inflexible habit, they spin beautifully regular webs in frames supplied for the purpose...
...Jackson had been called up in World War II, he would have been a problem. The doctors would have noted that he was underweight, had weak eyes and a bad stomach. The psychiatrists would have frowned at his religious fanaticism, his unwillingness to fight on Sunday, and his neurotic habit of raising one arm in the air to "lighten it" because he was convinced that it was heavier than the other...
...never been satisfactorily explained. But he resembled U.S. Grant in his habitual willingness to fight, and Napoleon in his instant grasp of the weakness of an enemy position. His own officers were infuriated by his secrecy, often knowing as little of his plans as did the foe. Occasionally this habit cost him a victory. More often it resulted in stunning surprises, as at Chancellorsville when his entire force suddenly appeared in the enemy rear...