Word: habit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...perpetually disorganized and chronically late. He promises to look up facts and somehow rarely does. He constantly writes himself notes and then loses them. He tries to return all phone calls - but then forgets. He is also capable of succumbing to the common press secretary's habit of overreacting to critics. When the New York Times's James T. Wooten wrote a story claiming Carter was retreating into isolation and browbeating his staff, Powell delivered a 20-minute broadside. Replies Wooten: "Powell is not a man to back away from a story or a reporter who he feels...
Brother Ignatius Jones, FMS, is a case in point. Brother Ignatius is your basic old-line Catholic teaching brother, which means he is like a priest because he can't get married and has to wear a black-and-white habit that makes him look like a six-foot penguin, although he doesn't have to say Mass every Sunday and instead gets to say things like "Jesus Christ" without having to wrap a sermon around them. Brother Ignatius taught calculus in my high school in New York, and he taught it really well, because everyone learned it really well...
Small, image-enhancing fibs like that are a habit of the profession whose code she helped to shape, and let there be no doubt about what that profession was. It was stardom. This is not to say that she was not, on occasion, an effective actress. It is to suggest that acting - like shading her age or flattering her fan clubs with personal attention or fighting the studio bosses for strong roles or making sure her eyebrows were properly plucked - was part of the larger job of being a star...
...back; Peres, if he wins, may require at least a month of delicate negotiations to put together the kind of coalition Cabinet that Israelis are used to. Beyond that, to foreign observers, the new U.S. Administration's learning processes have seemed a little uncertain. The President's habit of ruminating in public on such complex and emotionally freighted issues as defensible borders for Israel or a homeland for the Palestinians has given some of the participants second thoughts about what might happen at Geneva...
...like horses," Cauthen said. "I played a year of Little League baseball, and my high school in Kentucky, Walton-Verona, isn't far from Cincinnati. It was full of baseball freaks and basketball freaks. But I liked horses. They're creatures of habit and smarter than most people think. My mother trains horses and my dad's a blacksmith, and they have some acreage, so I grew up with horses and horse people. It takes me about five minutes now to get the feel of a new horse. I love New York racing. I love riding the well-bred horses...