Word: habit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years before the passage of the Federal Food and Drugs Act in 1906, Sears attributed all kinds of curative powers to its treatments. Among them were obesity powders "to get rid of superfluous fat," a hair restorer and remedies for rheumatism, asthma, heart disease and an "opium and morphine habit." The bulk of the 1897 edition is devoted to the essentials of late-19th century life, at prices that today are pure nostalgia. Shoppers could find a 200-lb. barrel of corned beef for $9, a 35-lb. wooden pail of gumdrops at $1.65 and a dozen 5-lb. pails...
Television's habit of cutting away at will from the podium began, with far more justification, in the days when conventions were a gaudy and contentious rite where delegates really debated and decided. Television boasted of the civic responsibility of its gavel-to-gavel coverage, but even then it was contrasting the shouting orator and the snoozing delegate or chasing politicians down hotel corridors, arguing that this was where the real news was being made. It was also where journalistic reputations were being made, which is why in its own interest each network lavished so much money on coverage...
...prepare for a couple of 9 a.m. starting times at the outset of the tournament, the U.S. basketball women forced themselves into a habit of rising at 5:30. Pat Head Summitt, their quieter coach from Tennessee, complained drowsily, "I keep pouring coffee into my cereal." But the players, notably U.S.C. Star Cheryl Miller (6 ft. 3 in.) and Louisiana Tech Guard Kim Mulkey (5 ft. 4 in.), have looked more than alert. In the view of Australian Coach Brandan Flynn, the U.S. women's team is "by far the greatest ever." The Aussies were beaten...
...four research and 82 branch libraries in 1981, after eight years as professor, dean and provost at the University of Pennsylvania. Born in Iran, Gregorian is an Armenian American who speaks Russian, Turkish, Persian, French and Arabic in addition to his first language, Armenian. He has a disarming habit of dropping articles like the when he speaks English (a surprise, for instance, "comes out of blue"). Yet he has eloquently convinced New Yorkers that their library, which contains such treasures as a Gutenberg Bible and George Washington's Farewell Address in his own hand, is nothing less than...
...blockbuster novel, short-story writers have had a hard time supporting their habit. While Novelists John Updike and Saul Bellow can afford occasional forays into the briefer forms, a hard-bitten short-story adept like Stephen Dixon, 48, has had to toil as a bartender, waiter and pajama salesman to pay for the privilege of persisting in an unprofitable genre. But a boomlet in short fiction seems to be at hand. Publishers are wagering in increasing numbers that storytellers can attract readers beyond the pages of the little magazines...