Word: habits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fattened up on second-division clubs, lost to the strong teams. This year Brooklyn trampled all opposition, won 30 of its last 37 games in the pennant drive. Growls Dressen : "We're in no mood to coast. The series will take care of itself." Faith in an Old Habit. Brooklyn will need its power. In the American League, the Yankees have made the same kind of runaway; this week, by beating second-place Cleveland two in a row, they clinched the pennant with a 13-game lead. Manager Casey Stengel has a cool, battle-hardened pitching staff to throw...
Casey Stengel, going after his fifth consecutive World's Championship, is making no predictions. But neither he nor his team is conceding the Dodgers anything, and the Yankees have a habit of winning the big ones. Says Stengel: "I'm sick of hearing how great those Dodgers are and what they'll do to us in the World Series. We may fool a few people...
...these troubles scarcely ruffled Chanel No. 5's No. 1 man. Along with other Paris perfumers last month, he agreed to underwrite the Grasse industry by paying "fair prices" for the essential oils. Keeping prices up is a habit in the industry. When the Laniel government issued a decree forbidding price-fixing last month, the Syndicat de la Parfumerie intervened with the authorities and got themselves exempted...
Sand; out of their relationship came the Sand characteristics-the billowing cigar, the tasseled boots, the incurable, paradoxical habit of seeking perfect love only in the arms of men who were too feeble or feminine to supply...
Stories that appear in TIME have a habit of producing still other stories. Some recent examples...