Word: habit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...often," he continued, "it is the habit of African-American students to have a romantic view of Black history. To study Black history is notable. To make Black history is even more appropriate...
...among four or five subjects with as many as 10 officials. Clinton likes to ask whomever he is with for an opinion about whatever is on his mind, whether that person knows much about it or not. In private Clinton will admit to his weakness, likening it to the habit of a schoolboy who enters a public library to browse the history stacks but then loses himself in mysteries. "He can have a 10-minute meeting in two hours," says an aide...
...innocent pawing of Trekkies rendered the games in worse shape than a breached warp-core, a handy technician came out to fix it. Once the dazzling frieze of the Enterprise outrunning the Borg was relit, die-hard Trekkie pinballers breathed a sigh of relief and returned to their habit. Alas, their joy was premature; the technician was no Jordi. The first ball launched came to a dead stop, as if stopped by the Enterprise's own ample shields. But a closer inspection revealed the true culprit-the technician, ersatz hero, had left his miniature screwdriver under the glass...
...when her first child, Tracee, was a year old. The young mother's life unraveled; they found themselves living in an abandoned house with no heat and no gas. Holland signed the baby into foster care. Over the next eight years, while nurturing an escalating habit, she managed to have two more daughters, Rickiyah and Cade. She abandoned them, leaving them with a friend shortly after her boyfriend began dealing and sharing his drugs. "That's when I started thinking about killing myself," she says...
...unbearable note arises from a child's humiliation -- when he must impersonate an adult, must pay the price for grownups' failures and follies. Buchwald seems to have got through it with a sturdy and precocious self- possession. He shares with his father, he says, the habit of smiling no matter what -- a sort of armor, a mask of self-containment. Buchwald writes: "I must have been six or seven when I said, 'This stinks. I am going to become a humorist.' " He got some minuscule revenge by refusing to be Bar Mitzvahed, which grieved his father, and by running away...