Word: habits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...explain what should be done. The ideas are seductive, the directions are clearly indicated, the plans are detailed. France conceived the universe and then nothing, or almost nothing, happens . . . The men who govern today or have governed in recent years (they are practically the same ones), have taken the habit of no longer believing that a serious effort can be undertaken and succeed...
Psychiatric treatment need not mean prolonged analysis. If the boy is in his early teens and not set in his ways, a few hours of give & take interviews may suffice. The older the boy and the more deep-rooted the habit, the longer the treatment and the less the chances of success. Some who will not give up the habit can be helped to adjust to society so that they will do no further harm to others...
...Ridgepole. Even in those days, playing with her brothers, Grandma made a habit of excelling. "If they'd climb up a tree," she says, "I'd climb higher. They weren't goin' to outdo me. If they'd climb to the eaves of a house, I'd climb to the ridgepole...
COCA-COLA has finally won its four-year court battle with French winegrowers and mineral-water bottlers, who (along with the Communists) hinted that its secret formula contained harmful ingredients. A Paris court threw the case out after experts said that Coke was "neither harmful, nor habit-forming, nor against the existing laws...
...doomsayers who see every business lull as the onset of recession came some advice from Oldtime New Dealer David E. Lilienthal: "A country can become a hypochondriac too, just as a person can. A country can fall into the habit of popping a fever thermometer into its mouth to take its economic temperature every hour on the hour, listening anxiously to its every heartbeat, and forever psychoanalyzing itself. Frankly, we've had a bit too much of this lately...