Word: habits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...continued to slam down the hard stuff with as much alacrity as ever," he says. Indeed, for every yuppie who has traded in vodka for mineral water, there seems to be a social drinker like Kamiya clinging to the old ways--or a teenager taking up a habit he may not be able to handle. The result: although drinking is definitely down nationwide, many Americans still drink as lustily as ever and alcohol abuse remains a major social problem...
...narrative moves with enormous grace and wit. This affectionate character study of a nearly extinct species can also be read as a fascinating gloss on World War II, or as a social history of wealth and privilege in decline. It was privilege, in the end, that killed Mountbatten. His habit over the decades was to spend his summers at Classiebawn Castle, an elegant old pile he owned in the Republic of Ireland. It will stand as one of history's sad ironies that Mountbatten had never taken part in the dispute over the control of Ulster and that, in fact...
...kindling, let's pile high all the Bean catalogue on campus. Self-proclaimed ex-preppies can speak on how they broke the habit, and we can burn an effigy of Lisa Birnbach...
...colonial times everyone had to "wean modest and sober habit." "Strange ruffian like new langled fashions," including gold and silver were strictly prohibited...
With all that translating, praying and donning of sober habit, students during Harvard's second century had little time for merriment. Fortunately, it was prohibited...