Word: habits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Labor's chance to repeat its 1945 upset exists in the statistics at least: habit and party regularity promise Labor and the Conservatives just about 12 million votes apiece for certain. With another 1,000,000 votes likely to be sprinkled among the Liberals and lesser parties, the election will turn on the decision of from 1,000,000 to 5,000,000 independents...
...believe in F.D.R.'s greatness, and in the necessity for the New Deal in the setting in which it took place. Both, however, must stand the test of rigorous analysis, and I therefore welcome Professor Robinson's book . . . The political habit of undermining popular respect for the opposition by the use of picturesque epithet is as old as the nation. I can think of many real classics stretching all the way back to Washington's Administration, when John Adams referred to Alexander Hamilton as that "little West Indian bastard." . . . To hold F.D.R. responsible for McCarthy because F.D.R...
...efficiency. Wrote Wason: "The movements consisted of a rhythmical swaying of the trunk backwards and forward, with rapid folding of the ends of the papers and tapping and shaking of the soap. Rotation of the head was also observed. These movements were absent in new employees . . . however, the habit gradually developed after training. It was found that the greater the jigging the greater was the woman's efficiency . . . Rhythm is a help in any kind of repetitive work, and the rhythm in this occupation probably develops in an attempt to increase speed [since workers] are paid a bonus...
...medicine has long felt the need for a new unit to express the force of one G (the acceleration of gravity) acting on a body for one second. At Holloman Air Development Center, New Mexico, where men are exposed to Gs for experimental purposes, the experimenters got in the habit of calling the needed unit a "jerk" or "jolt." A man who had taken four Gs for 20 seconds, for instance, was said to have taken 80 jolts...
...accepted as postulants. They bring a "dowry" of $100 (it may be dispensed with in hardship cases), which goes toward financing the order's work. Postulants take no vows while undergoing a kind of basic training. After six months a postulant may receive the habit and white veil of a novice together with a new name. For the next two years she leads the full life of a Maryknoll sister, but also studies Catholic doctrine, the essentials of religious life ("Emily Post in the Convent,"as the course is jocularly known), and the Mass responses and Gregorian chant."When...