Word: habits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Though meprobamate (brand-named Miltown and Equanil) has been hailed as least dangerous of the ataraxic drugs (TIME. Feb. 27), there are still a few patients for whom it can be harmful, warned Seattle Psychiatrist Frederick Lemere. It can be habit-forming because patients become dependent on it and re quire ever-increasing doses, and they show severe withdrawal symptoms when it is discontinued...
...because the man puts in one 18-hour day after another with no more sign of human emotion or human fatigue than a robot; tired mentally because Estes bores them with his unvarying routine, his dull, platitudinous, primerlike speeches repeated with little variation at stop after stop, his tedious habit of shaking one hand after another, looking at its owner with glazed, unseeing eyes, hardly hearing himself mouth some meaningless banality...
Furthermore, this year's senior members have never been defeated. As Yardlings, they compiled the first undefeated record since 1920, and once in this winning habit, they won over all comers in dual and triangular competition...
...rallies. Ken Rosewall nourishes an old-fashioned taste for the back court, for stylish strokes, for careful strategy worked out through a long, exciting exchange of shots. Such tactics seldom stand a chance against the "big" game of today's champions-and until this week Ken had a habit of finishing secondbest. Smooth, fast-paced ground shots may be lovely to look at, but most of the time they add up to little against a booming serve backed by the ability to come up fast and put away a volley...
...Helen has been meeting "I" in the bamboo thickets-he is inspired to his masterpiece of zoological warfare: he coils a dead mamba on Helen's dressing table. He is betting on the mamba's being not only a fearsome and deadly reptile, but one with the habit of seeking its dead mate. The relict of the dead mamba arrives on schedule and bites Helen in the neck. She dies in a few seconds. Whereupon "I", moved to a mamba-like revenge, ambushes Henry in the jungle and shoots him as dead as Hemingway's Mrs. Francis...