Word: habit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...team's pretty disappointed with itself," Nelson said last night. "We were clearly a better team, but we've gotten into this habit of tying--and it's just a bad habit," he added...
...Nasty Habit...
...while it appeared that the booters would kick the habit with Nelson's potent foot. Midway through the opening period the Crimson standout took a pass off the head of freshman Alberto Villar and knocked an offspeed shot past the Williams goalkeeper...
Bate's Johnson is not without its faults. His overreliance on Freud can become tiresome, and he tends to belabor his evidence. But his commentaries on Johnson's mind are unfailingly ingenious. The severe breakdown Johnson suffered in his 50s, Bate argues, was provoked by "the habit of leaping ahead in imagination into the future and forestalling disappointment"; he had renounced hope, the one virtue he believed essential to life. This sort of intuitive speculation, intimate but never condescending, recalls Johnson's own method in Lives of the Poets. No other biographer of Johnson has meditated...
...course you'd never do anything with a needle, you're not crazy...and then you do...it's like every time you're making promise to yourself and with each time you break one there's that much less of yourself to respect, and you get into the habit of it and pretty soon you can't break the habit...But don't you start playing the Lady-Angel of Sweetness-and-Light with me, chick, I can do just fine...