Word: habits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ewart needed all the help he could get in his race against Jim Murray, who has become a habit with Montanans. Every six years, the Republicans figure Murray is ripe for plucking. His age (78) is cited against him. and he is a pariah to the Democratic isolationists following ex-Senator Burton K. Wheeler. D'Ewart, whose congressional district covers more than half the state, is well-known and well-liked. Nevertheless, chances are Montana will re-elect Murray, as it has since...
...over Italy schoolboys were delighted when Dr. Gaetano Martino was appointed Italy's new Foreign Minister. As Minister of Education, Dr. Martino had cracked down on the comfortable Italian habit of turning out thousands of ignorant youngsters with college degrees and a smattering of Latin while training too few mechanics and skilled workers. "Flunk without pity lazy or stupid students," he ordered examiners. As a result, June exams became known as "the slaughter of the innocents...
...SOUTHERNERS are always being asked to account for themselves in general; it's a national habit . . . Now that the 'Southern Renaissance' is a frequent term, and they are being asked to account for that, some try, and others just go on writing. In one little Mississippi town on the river, 17 authors are in the national print and a Pulitzer Prize winner edits the paper...
...smashed (two babies died in a rat-infested cellar), his will to work gone sour. He leaves his wife and remaining children because there is literally no room for him in their miserable one-room apartment. But after 15 years of marriage, Fred and Kate Bogner have become a habit with each other. Against a backdrop of Rhineland prosperity, symbolized by a convention of German druggists, Fred borrows enough money to rent a cheap hotel room so that he and his wife can meet without the children seeing or the neighbors listening...
...also becoming clear to many worried Frenchmen that the rejection of EDC had set in train a series of allied reactions which Mendès had not sufficiently anticipated. Shaping up before the French was one of those logical questions that French Premiers have a habit of putting to their allies. France might reject EDC, but is it prepared to go all the way and discard its NATO shield...