Word: habits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...patient citizens of the farming village of Ifs in Northwest France had put up with Headmaster Jacques Mériel of the town's new elementary school. After all, they told each other, he was a harmless, peaceful sort of man. They attributed his strange habits to the fact that he had once been run down by a Nazi truck. But last week the 46-year-old headmaster was the center of a sudden explosion of wrath. Reason: his incorrigible habit of falling asleep in class...
...than any Yankee team in years. Their pitchers were worn out from working overtime. Half their fielders were held together by adhesive tape. Even so, every bookmaker operating a safe distance from the shores of the Gowanus Canal chalked them up as favorites. Why? Well, there was that Yankee habit of winning the money games. And then there was Casey Stengel, who could always be counted on to outmaneuver the opposition...
Then he cajoled his wife, 21, into taking heroin or "horse" ("Why don't you try it just once and see what it's like?"). She did, and took to prostitution to get money for "H." Then she goaded her brother, 18, into the habit. In the last few days, testified the wife, she had been offered heroin three times while pushing her baby carriage on Manhattan's West 53rd Street...
...most drastic break with current U.S. practice that he suggested was rehabilitating the addict first-teaching him a trade, helping him to get a job-and treating the addiction afterward. This would mean dispensing narcotics to the addict until the doctor felt that he was ready to lick the habit. A similar system, tried from 1919 to 1929 at 44 clinics in 15 states, claimed the Academy, showed good results until the Government stopped...
...Left have left the church, a lot of people will wish that they would stop arguing so noisily on the steps. Nevertheless, Camus is an honest, deeply intelligent man of near genius, who has tried to restate basic Christian morality in terms acceptable to an atheist, e.g., the Christian habit and virtue of pity. This may be a little like weeping for Tiny Tim while refusing to believe in Dickens. But U.S. readers, or at least those who have not taken their philosophy with Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, will find a troubling power in Camus' negative thinking, a disturbing...