Word: habit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reached him at a party. "I'll pick up the phone and Cy will say, 'Andy, just a couple of points.' And, man, there they'll come?tick, tick, tick; one, two, three." Aides tell of meetings that Vance holds with CIA Director Stansfield Turner, who has a similar habit. "The two of them will checklist you into stupefaction," says one observer...
Smokers can take heart from the 300,000-member organization PUFF (People United to Fight Frustrations), founded last fall by Richard Arnold of Lubbock, Texas. Arnold, who owns two restaurants, gave up smoking three months ago, thinks the habit is harmful and recommends that smokers put out cigarettes "as a common courtesy" if the smoke is bothering anyone. He refuses donations from the tobacco industry because PUFF is not interested in promoting smoking, only the right to smoke...
...lights only edged MIT by two-tenths of a second. That's not very long. In fact, the race was so close that some members of the Harvard boat were unsure they had won. MIT assured them when it shouted across the river, perhaps out of force of habit, "Let's bring the boats together so we can give you our shirts...
Libby Pierpont, breaking her three-set-match habit, crushed Kate Gray in the number-two slot, 6-0, 6-2. Leslie Miller at five walloped Marcia Patterson, 2-and-0, and Wen, moving into the sixth position, double-bageled Berit Berquist...
...attempt to escape his loneliness and frustration, Benji turns to drugs. His habit gets progressively worse and little by little his world falls apart: first he starts stealing from his own family, then a friend dies of an overdose and finally, in a moment of abject despair, he attempts suicide...