Word: habit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...preparations for Geneva, there will be a setback. I proposed a working group under [Secretary of State Cyrus] Vance to contact all the parties concerned so that we could start at Geneva discussing the substance, not the procedural arrangements. But it was rejected by the Syrians. This is their habit. Whatever Egypt proposes, they reject at once, even without discussing it. The peace process started to slacken...
Harvard jumped out to an early lead in this meet by taking first place in the first five events. This habit proved extrememly hard to break, as they went on to place first in 13 of the night's 16 events. The relay teams capped a successful capped a successful evening by easily sweeping both the mile and two mile and two mile relay events. So much for B.C.: Harvard...
...great elephant," Leonardo da Vinci wrote, "has by nature qualities which rarely occur among men: namely probity, prudence, and the sense of justice and of religious observance." Later zoologists in Africa have noticed more human traits in Loxodonta africana -long childhoods and close nuclear families, high intelligence and a habit of wrecking their environment and destroying their own food supply. The suicide ground of the retreating herds of African elephants has been, for the past quarter-century, the Tsavo National Park in Kenya, a place ringed by political (and thus, from the elephants' point of view, irrational) boundaries. This...
...commenced around three billion years ago in the fertile, seething seas. Eventually creatures left the water to try to survive on land. One form of life that evolved was a child-bearing, milk-suckling mammal. But about 50 million years ago some of the mammals that had formed the habit of eating fish returned to the seas. They were the ancient ancestors of the modern Cetacea--dolphins, porpoises and whales...
Coach Ben Zivkovic, when asked about Harvard's ability to use just their wrists when moving the foil (as opposed to MIT's habit of tipping off their tactics by moving their entire arm), emphasized the importance of refined technique. "If you don't have the technique it's slogging," he said. "When you get it (point movement) down from the wrists to the fingertips then you fence in the Olympics...