Word: habits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Habit. That victory could hardly have been achieved by the enfeebled sort of fellow that Ike was still pictured, in some circles, as being. In fact, allowing for the natural increment of years, he was the Dwight Eisenhower of the days before his heart attack. His weight stood at 174 Ibs., just 2 Ibs. over his best football weight at West Point. His blood pressure held at a healthy 140/80. He continued to take anticoagulant drugs, held to a low-fat diet, but felt free to wander into the kitchen of his Gettysburg farm to order "nice fresh corn...
...Kangaroo Habit...
...mothers who protested against the removal of this wonderful children's program. To my surprise, after looking at this show, I eventually made it a habit of sitting down with my youngster, and derived some entertainment each morning. RUTH FAIGES Newark...
After reading your fascinating Aug. 3 account of the sleepy people, we are frankly puzzled. You report concerning a 20-year-old young man who had "the not surprising habit of falling asleep in church . . ." Indeed, we are surprised. Even our babies don't fall asleep in church. They just...
Part of the book's fascination lies in a game of who's who that readers will be tempted to play. The parties are never actually labeled, but indications are that the President is a Democrat; with his infectious laugh, his habit of tossing his head and his cynical charm, he has more than a few traits of F.D.R. Leffingwell, Cooley and Anderson are blurred, composite pictures. But Senator Orrin Knox, who has been defeated twice for the presidential nomination because of his brusque honesty, owes a great deal of his fictional likeness to that of Bob Taft...