Word: habit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other, more overbearing moments one wishes he had taken to heart a line in the play, when the student Trofimov advises the exuberant parvenu Lopakhin: "Stop waving your arms about. Get out of the habit of making grand gestures...
...some say, the White House plumbers of the Nixon years. Bugs installed by Chin in the East Side digs of Prostitute Xaviera Hollander yielded the raw material for her 1972 book, The Happy Hooker. But along with a lot of business, Chin picked up a bad habit: he liked to testify in court cases in which his equipment had been used. Says his blonde wife, Leonore, with understatement: "He made about two enemies a year over a period of ten years...
Once again last December a delegation arrived for talks, as usual led by Mr. Ellsworth Bunker, the former ambassador to Vietnam: they stayed for the inside of a week on the pleasant tourist island of Contadura where it had become a habit to hold such parleys, then they went home...
...that from Washington to Boston-among businessmen, academics, magazine editors, network newsmen, Government officials-the Times is the daily shared data base of the Eastern Establishment. "Getting through" the Times every day, as the practice is known, is a duty, sometimes a pleasure, but always a time-consuming habit. On Sundays it can easily take more than two hours...
...that familiar character of modern fiction, the wanderer who can in habit diverse places and situations as naturally as a hermit crab crawls into an abandoned shell. Unlike Edward, she accepts age and solitude without feeling boredom. Unlike Stephen, she can draw pleasure from watching dust motes dance in a shaft of light...