Word: habit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mayor visited Patricia Murray at Boston City Hospital one day after she told reporters that her $250-a-day drug habit made selling sex necessary...
...only with the shapes and colors of the animals but with their motions, their curving and infinitely varied gaits. The zebra moves with a strong, short-muscled stride. It is a sleek, erotic beast with vigorous bearing. The zebra's self-possession is a likable trait. It is human habit to sort the animals almost immediately into orders of preference. The animals are arranged in people's minds as a popularity contest. Some animals are endearing, and some repulsive. One wants to see the lion first, and then the elephant and after that the leopard, then rhino...
Lost in thought, he fiddles with his fingers, rubbing his left hand with his right as though it were a kind of talisman. It is a nervous habit, something he does before nearly every public appearance. At 7:15 a.m., Gary Hart, his black cowboy boots burnished, his blue pinstripe suit neatly pressed, stands in the corner of the windowless waiting room at ABC before going on Good Morning America. He is there to promote The Strategies of Zeus, his recently published spy novel about arms talks in Geneva. Watching the monitor, he hears the announcer telling viewers what...
...said it also recommends that University Health Services expand its "cessation programs" to help smokers kick the habit, and encourage the departments to set up similar programs of their...
...ONLY WAY to break the Hyperbolic Habit is to make the professors conscious of it. To this end I suggest the introduction of large electronic scoreboards into lecture halls. The boards will use multi-colored light bulbs to keep track of "as-it-weres," "quote-unquotes," "so-to-speaks," and other annoying phrases or meaningless digressions during lecture...