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Word: habit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...never to say never. I've got in too many difficulties when I let my mind rule my heart. I've learned to do what my emotions tell me. Rocky came out of nowhere like that. I just went with my feelings." Going for it is a habit Stallone may never break...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Winner and Still Champion | 6/14/1982 | See Source »

...have been part of Sunday night's Tony Awards on CBS, but when network censors took in A Call from the Vatican, they said sorry, wrong number. The replacement song, Be Italian, puts Anita into attire more in keeping with Sunday-night fare: a nun's habit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 14, 1982 | 6/14/1982 | See Source »

...meeting with Governor Reagan in 1972 left me with a favorable impression. I had never before met a person who, if he was not knowledgeable on a subject, said so explicitly, without hiding behind phrases devoid of content. President Reagan should maintain this habit and oblige his fellow leaders to be precise and concrete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Be Patient with Our Contradictions: Giulio Andreotti to Reagan | 6/7/1982 | See Source »

...Habit of Being,by Flannery O'Connor...

Author: By Mary Humes and Rebecca J. Joseph, S | Title: The Leisure of the Theory Class | 5/26/1982 | See Source »

...psychological evidence is so blatant that one should expect an ambush. Edel plunges ahead. Under "Castration Complex," he finds a reference to "The Story of Little Suck-a-Thumb," whose mother warns him that he will lose his favorite fingers if he does not stop his infantile habit. He does not, and in comes "the great, long, red-legged scissors-man" to carry out the sentence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Secrets of Creative Nightmares | 5/24/1982 | See Source »

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