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Word: habit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last year--has been the ace, winning three straight since his indecisive appearance against Florida Southern. He was in real trouble only once, when Penn staged a slight rally at his expense. Relief pitcher Bob Lincoln came on and saved the Harvard victory. Lincoln is making a habit of this sort of thing. He preserved Peter's win over Stetson, and finished up Dorwart's victory over Rollins...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Baseball, Golf, and Tennis Begin Seasons | 4/8/1968 | See Source »

Ecstasy begins with a platform certain to make any hippie yell yippie: an end to war and pay toilets, legalization of psychedelic drugs, free food, and a heart transplant for L.B.J. Also advocated: "juvenile exhibitionism"-a favorite hippie habit most recently practiced by at least 50 young men and women from San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, who stripped to the buff in Golden Gate Park before a crowd of ogling onlookers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Youth: The Politics of YIP | 4/5/1968 | See Source »

...blazoned with the Star of David criss crossed the skies. In the worst out break of hostilities in the Middle East since last June's Six-Day War, Israel last week launched a massive reprisal that raised the question of whether it may have got into the unhappy habit of overreacting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Foray into Jordan | 3/29/1968 | See Source »

...Cavett is not stopped before he gets more practice, this Nebraska citybilly, this con merchant in a Brooks Brothers special, this yahoo Yalie, this literate, witty guy, is likely to become a national habit. And then who is going to wash all those dirty dishes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Programming: Yuk Among the Yaks | 3/22/1968 | See Source »

...collection of uncooperative protagonists. At the outset Anouilh has the courtesy to apologize, though the Author, to Pirandello. After that, Buchwald is left to intervene periodically as the play drifts out of his control. He does so with reasonable skill, although his expression of unrelieved anguish and his habit of passing off fidgeting as unease begin to wear after a while...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Cavern | 3/8/1968 | See Source »

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