Word: habits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ball, anyone on the team will gamble and go for extra bases. If Smokey Alston worries about any single defect, it is Dodger nonchalance. His team won the pennant too soon, coasted into autumn carelessly dulling the fine edge that made them champions. Then, there is always that oldtime habit of losing to the Yanks in the series...
...Premier's wife who, in the Egyptian tradition, takes no part in public affairs, but devotes herself to their family: three boys and two girls. Nasser, while he smokes, has never been known to drink anything stronger than Coke. His favorite beverage is a cup of tea, a habit learned from British officers...
...from the green grass of Yankee Stadium, a tourist in Rome succumbed to an old Yankee habit: psychoanalyzing the Brooklyn Dodgers. Said Joseph Paul Di-Maggio about a possible Dodger-Yankee World Series: "It has gotten so bad with them in Brooklyn that they can't even say the word 'Yankees.' It's always 'those blankety-blank lucky Yankees'-to put it politely. I guess the only thing that can cure them is a brainwashing...
...metal in the front half of cars compresses too easily. Dashboards, he feels, should be moved forward and "delethalized" with padding. Doors should be fitted with safety locks so they will not fly open in crashes. Rear-window shelves should be removed; objects on them have a horrible habit of spewing into passengers' heads during crashes. Power brakes, he suggests, should be operated by hand; the eye-hand reaction is quicker than any foot movement. And safety belts, he thinks, are absolute necessities. This month Colonel Stapp will be traveling to Detroit to congratulate the Automobile Manufacturers Association...
...hooliganism and offers an engaging illustration (see cut), but the reader might still wish to know how an Irish patronymic became the eponym for such an apparently large group of Soviet scofflaws, uncultured types and downright gangsters. Its derivation may be traced to Marx's class-conscious habit of referring to his working-class critics as "Lumpenproletariat, scum, sweepings...