Word: habit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...make it a habit of being in at least one controversy per meeting?" asked Cynthia D. Johnson '96 at one particularly volatile Undergraduate Council session in April...
When I was a first year in college, I planned to study political science. I took a required first-year core course in literature, and the professor got into the annoying habit of giving me C's and D's on my papers. Finally, on the eighth and final essay of the year, I got an A-. I felt--rightly--that I had acquired a new skill, that I had learned to excel in an area in which I had been close to failure. Exulting this experience, I chose to study literature. Of course, my instructor could have given...
...imperial family. On an international level, the press is avid: unlike the feckless Brits and the sulky Grimaldis, this pair are good-news royals, appealing, admirable and with the allure of mystery. Tabloids and weeklies have become fascinated by the young woman with the Mona Lisa smile and habit of looking upward from downcast eyes -- not unlike the young Lady Di. At home, Masakomania dominates the thriving women's magazine business, although Owada has given no interviews and precious few photo opportunities...
...Tropic of Cancer, for example--"I too would become a Jew...Why not? I already speak like a Jew. And I am as ugly as a Jew. Besides, who hates the Jews more than Jews?"--and then explains this passage as just an example of "Henry's lifelong habit of letting it all hang out." There may be a way to contextualize Miller's anti-Semitism. "Letting it all hang...
...Administration made the task harder by the procedure it adopted. Elementary prudence -- not to mention Clinton's usual habit of seeking to accommodate everybody -- would seem to have dictated trying to bring the major interest groups aboard from the start, at least to the extent of listening to their views and thus giving them a stake in a plan they could feel they had helped shape. Instead, the White House turned the job over to a 511-member task force whose very names were kept secret. When the Administration grudgingly issued a list, the task-force members turned...