Word: habits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next morning, as he walked to class, groups of white students stopped him and apologized for the Klansters. After that, Washington had only one unpleasant experience-the time when a fellow student used the word nigger in class. Washington felt that the student had acted only out of habit, but, says he, "there were a few liberals in the room who I knew would resent it if I showed no offense. So I turned around and looked at the fellow with as stern a look as I could muster." Washington never heard "that word" again...
...United States I was a science-fiction addict myself," confessed Hungarian Author Arthur (Darkness at Noon) Koestler in Harper's Bazaar, "and I am still liable to occasional relapses." But the American mania for "reading about space travel, time travel, martian maidens and extragalactic supermen is habit-forming, like opium, murder thrillers and yoghurt diets ... [A kind of] apocalyptic intuition [that] the human race may be a biological misfit doomed to extinction . . . may be one of the reasons for the sudden interest in life on other stars...
...letter of Ted Powers [TIME, July 20], let me give Powers a little scoop concerning the overpublicized Marine Corps. The Marine Corps receives public attention because marines have a peculiar habit of being the best in anything they undertake. If I remember the 27th Army Division correctly, they were the outfit on Saipan that could not keep up with the Marines and whose commanding general, Ralph Smith, was relieved of his command because he couldn't get his men to move forward. As for comparisons between the Army and Marine Corps, the Marine Corps will top the Army...
...earns $650 a month and goes regularly to Sunday Mass at St. Margaret of Scotland Roman Catholic Church. But he nursed an extraordinary hatred for a clerk named Ralph Adams who had been courting 35-year-old Mary Deady for five years. Reason: Ralph Adams was in the habit of parking his automobile in front of Looby's house...
...next player must build another word on the original, but only in such a way that every combinaton of adjoining letters which he makes forms some word. Short, recondite words like gnus and zax-(see diagram) have a habit of appearing...