Word: habits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first governor of its new protectorate, the French sent the revered Marshal Louis Hubert Lyautey to Morocco. Lyautey's policy: "Do not offend a single tradition or change a single habit." He ordered French towns built alongside but separate from the Moroccan towns, put all mosques off limits to unbelievers, and met the Moroccans as friendly equals. When he sent the Foreign Legion to subdue rebellious chiefs, he warned his commanders: "Always show your force in order to avoid using it. Never enter a village without thinking that the market must be opened the next...
Another problem which hampers the diplomatic corps is Washington's habit of moving them about every three years, oft-times at the worst possible moment. For example, the United States Ambassador to Sweden, John M. Cabot, will be transferred to Colombia this spring. Cabot is extremely popular in Sweden and, moreover, Sweden is now under the strongest Soviet pressure in years. By removing Cabot, the United States removes a prop from Sweden's stand against Russia and raises doubt in Swedish minds as to the sincerity and intelligence of United States support...
...blocking a section of the sensory nerve running from the affected part of the body to the brain -a tested technique-the injections relieve pain for up to six months, can easily be given again if the nerve returns to life. Advantage over narcotics: the injection is non-habit-forming, does not wear off quickly. Advantage over surgery sometimes performed to kill pain by cutting a nerve: the injection is simpler, can be given even to greatly weakened patients...
...year-old Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College, Clennon King, 36, was a constant irritant to the state-run Negro campus. A Tuskegee graduate with an M.A. from Western Reserve, he was often rude to his students. He also aroused the wrath of President J. R. Otis for his habit of writing letters to the press on issues of the day. Last week the Jackson State Times began publishing a series of articles by Professor King that threatened to blow little (561 students) Alcorn right out of existence...
...computer has even learned to adjust to the ticker's habit of dropping digits when it falls behind the trading pace on the floor, can recognize and signal mistakes in quotations in a matter of seconds. The system is so swift that it would be possible to average all the 1,500 shares listed on the exchange, on an hourly basis. But Standard & Poor's feels that the new index will do just as well, since the stocks not in the index are little traded, have little effect on the market...