Word: habits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...generation of GOPoliticians missed this lesson because they had no chance to practice it. Unable to attain national authority, the G.O.P. Congressman in New Deal-Fair Deal days had only to satisfy the narrow interests of his own constituency; it was every Republican for himself. It still is. The habit of opposition, born during the years of exile, has not been broken. The appropriate charge against Republican Congressmen is not that of venality, or even of personal selfishness. It is that of a failure to understand the meaning of party responsibility, loyalty and discipline which are fundamental...
...strangely enough wakes up Monday morning with no guilt complex at all. The next weekend he decides to sleep through his Saturday classes, and the next he goes off to Vassar. His progress is painfully clear. Originally a no-cutter, he has been drawn down and has the habit. He has become a compulsive Saturday cutter...
...check those who might have hidden under their bed or in the closet would be caught and promptly disciplined. Nobody would suffer; the lecturers could be guaranteed a peak audience and proper acoustics. But most important of all, the University could take pride in stopping the serpent-tongued cutting habit before it could start...
...Jeeves is imperturbably ready with a Latin quip ("'Rem acu tetigisti,' which might be rendered by the American colloquialism, 'You said a mouthful' "), historical precedents ("In the words of Pliny the Younger . . .") and unobtrusive counsel ("Had I been aware that your lordship was in the habit of sleeping in mauve pajamas, I would have advised against it"). Author Wodehouse promises not to let this great mind lie fallow for so long again...
...high Sierra Madre Mountains of the State of Tamaulipas lived the Huasteca Indians, who were tough and somewhat provincial. They never reached the top level of indigenous civilization, but from Dr. MacNeish's point of view, they had an admirable habit: they lived or sheltered in dry mountain caves...