Word: habit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...visitors' worst habit was giving up the ball. The Crimson defense has no match when it comes to scooping up those ground balls and capitalizing on the opportunity with quick goals...
...Conservative strategy to put Labor out front, thereby denying Callaghan the opportunity to attack Thatcher policies by forcing him to defend his own record as Prime Minister for the past three years. There was also fear among Tory tacticians that Thatcher might fall back into her earlier habit of making provocative statements, thus committing a campaign gaffe that could cost the Tories their lead...
...Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor, edited by Sally Fitzgerald...
...Fuentes' novels, is practically non-existent. It concerns Felix Maldonado's passive evolution from a petty civil servant in the ministry of Economics to a staked assassin. Events are connected enigmatically--Maldonado returns from his operation to his Jewish wife who is rocking mutely in a nun's habit; a man killed in a meat freezer scrawls the word "nun" in blood on the glass door. The reader, along with Maldonado, wonders whether and why things occur. All the disjointed events arrive at a climactic suspension--Maldonado's second attempt on the President's life. The reader never discovers whether...
...Crimson had the opportunities to score but couldn't react quickly enough to execute their pass-and-cut scoring plays. Feeling stifled, the Harvard attack once again reverted to their old habit of going one-on-one with the opposition...