Word: habits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after it," reported TIME'S Senior Editor John Osborne. "French army trucks, private furniture vans and ancient buses loaded to their creaky axles crowd the hot streets and the roads leading out to Hanoi. At the city airstrip, the families of policemen and politicians, nuns in white cotton habit, priests and Catholic seminarians in black march sedately into the black-bellied Dakotas that fly in and out all day, ferrying a favored few thousands to the uncertain havens of Hanoi and Haiphong. Most of Namdinh's 80,000 people are staying on, awaiting the unknown, manning their shops...
...Cincinnati, the pink pill-chemical name: alpha (2-piperidyl) benzhydrol hydrochloride-was tested for 18 months by two local doctors under the supervision of Psychiatrist Howard Fabing. Human guinea pigs: 320 patients who were unhappy in love, discouraged with their jobs, generally worried. Nontoxic, non-habit-forming, Meratran provided a quick pickup and morale boost without the jangling, jittery aftereffects of Benzedrine (TIME, June 14), and without inducing hallucinations or nightmares. Though wary of all such "anti-blues" drugs, independent physicians here tentatively described Meratran as "interesting" and "promising...
...reach an equation on the top of the blackboard, or tutoring a troubled student long after hours, "Little Al" has become the most popular figure on cam pus - a gentle man who had a habit of quietly slipping his own money into scholarships for impoverished pupils and "who believes," as the 1914 yearbook puts it, "that there is good in every man and seeks to make that good predominate." Columbia's Talbot Hamlin, 65, ranking U.S. architectural historian, authority on early 19th century American architecture, editor of the monumental (four volumes, $80) Forms and Functions of Twentieth Century Architecture...
This volume is a cross section of Lager-kvist's short stories and fables from 1920 to 1935. Each sample illustrates in its own way the Lagerkvist habit of walking with one foot firmly on the ground, the other in the clouds. They include: ¶ The Lift That Went Down into Hell, a grim little tale in which a lover and his mistress, their lips "moist with wine," step unsuspectingly into a hotel elevator...
...beaten up to realize the fact. Ferdinand goes to London, where he makes a beeline for the French "colony" on the river ("That's what they call the Thames"). In a dockside pub he teams up with Boro, a sleazy French pianist "who was in the habit of wearing plum derbies...