Word: habits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jump if it's too much outside. I do it all pre-advance. It might be easier just to stick out the glove like most of them, but you might get the wrong tendency. If you keep moving every day, you'll get in the right habit...
...Newk has been pitching (18 won, i lost) and hitting (.376 at week's end) with astonishing skill ever since. With Pee Wee Reese, Junior Gilliam and Carl Furillo all doing their share, there is hardly a chance that the team can pick up its old habit of relaxing and folding in the stretch. Above all, Campy is back in shape. For two weeks the Dodgers fretted while he recovered from a loose bone spur in his knee; now he functions with his old, Buddha's efficiency. Last week he was back behind the plate to help...
...Eisenhower's Nightmare is a jocular example of Author Russell's lifelong habit of studying the political scene through a blind eye. Eisenhower dreams that Senator McCarthy and Georgy Malenkov come to power and divide the world between them: the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. settle down into mutually happy totalitarianism. Moral (for Author Russell only): Never jump to conclusions on clay feet...
...half-mile harness track one evening last week looked over the field in the $10,000 Runnymede Trot, put their money on "Little Joe" O'Brien and watched him romp home. Such confidence in Little Joe and his Hambletonian-bound colt Scott Frost is getting to be a habit. Just the week before, at Long Island's Roosevelt Raceway, the same pair were odds-on favorites when they won the $15,000 Old Country Trot. Today, when bettors back their judgment of the wagon ponies to the tune of $444 million a year at 81 tracks around...
...three best poets in Italy," and through his eyes she sees the glories of Florence and Siena, and in his arms plumbs depths of awakened passion Arcangelo commands (Neddy had never given her a direct order), he is fiercely jealous and he refuses to acquire the "matrimonial habits of good morning and good night and hallo dear. That's the end of love-habit." What stings Celia is the number of Arcangelo's past love affairs and the suspicion that she may be just one more sensual romp in the afternoon of a faun. The 36-year...