Word: habit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...NOTEBOOK--Cleary's habit of pounding on the boards behind the bench finally took its toll last night. One especially aggravating Harvard miscue cracked a pane of the brittle Forum glass, necessitating extensive repairs during the second period. The incident brings to mind a game at McHugh a few years ago when Harvard defenseman Jim Trainor slammed into the glass at extreme velocity and shattered shards all over the ice. That contest was held up a good half hour...
...associates in a Massachusetts firm called Animal Optics, Inc., are responsible for that ophthalmological advance. Wise had learned from his father, a California poultry farmer, that chickens with cataracts suffer reduced vision and also lose their tendency to peck one another to death, a lamentable chicken habit that can result in the destruction of up to 25% of. a tightly penned flock. In fact, the elder Wise had experimented with distorting lenses to reproduce the effects of cataracts and discovered that transparent colored lenses worked just as well...
...Neill also has the disconcerting habit of changing facial expression flamboyantly at every line he hears, particularly noticeable in O'Neill's many scenes with the exemplary Zabusky. The same heavyhandedness unhappily characterizes O'Neill's singing. His voice is rich and resonant but, like Sheldon's, somewhat stentorian under the circumstances...
...controversy continue, and the letters-diverse as they may be-all share a particular passion, not only for points of conscience and politics but for theater. They are like one of Brenton's Romans, who starts to address Julius Caesar, "I speak from the heart . . ." "A disgusting, fashionable habit," Caesar reminds him, an aside bound to cut any passionate British theatergoer right to the quick...
...result of such an encounter (one cannot be quite sure that it was the same one) was Object (Roses des Vents), which Cornell began in 1942, tinkered with for years-as was his habit, there being few precise dates or prompt solutions in his work-and finished in 1953. Emblems of travel, dwarfed mementos, a little box of mummified waves and shrunken coasts, peninsulas, planets, things set in compartments with an air of rigorous sentiment, each of the 21 compass needles insouciantly pointing in a different direction: it is the log of no ordinary voyage. (Even...