Word: habits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...delicate as a butterfly's wing, miniatures from Persia, figurines of ivory and jade from lands whose very names were magic-John loved them all and hated to leave them at the end of a working day. Little by little, beginning back in 1930, he developed the habit of taking a few of the smaller bibelots with him as he left for the Chiswick house he shared with his wife Mary...
Because they feel so good right after taking a goof ball and so rotten after it wears off, most non-medical users reach for another when the effect of one begins to pale. Though amphetamine is not technically an addicting drug, it is habit-forming. Neurotics have a vicious-circle routine: goof balls to wake them up and keep them going through the day, then barbiturates to still the jags and jitters and lull them to sleep. Over-the-road truck drivers take amphetamine to keep awake, and highway authorities suspect that many unexplained accidents result from the hallucinations which...
...Russian Habit Old Russian Habit Sir: Long before ace reporters were ever born to cover the Geneva Conference, William Shakespeare knew the Russian tactics and types of talk bandied by them (Love's Labour's Lost): We jour, indeed, confronted were with four In Russian habit: here they stay'd an hour, And talk'd apace; and in that hour, my lord, They did not bless us with one happy word...
There was, of course, no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment . . . You had to live-did live, from habit that became instinct -in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and except in darkness, every movement scrutinized...
...about Spain's civil war-an event that produced a spiritual crisis for Bidault. As a Catholic he was drawn to the Franco side, but as a republican democrat he was drawn to the Loyalist side. In what has since become a well-known-and often infuriating-Bidault habit, he held a kind of parliamentary debate within his mind, eventually summoning up a majority for a decision. The debate in the case of Spain resulted in a series of passionate anti-Franco editorials...