Word: habitability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...room displays bronze-tone, life-size statues of 10 world leaders, including Charles de Gaulle, Konrad Adenauer, Winston Churchill and Mao Zedong. Trying to hurry history's verdict, Nixon has always had a habit of dressing the set with giants, setting the delay timer, and then jumping into the picture himself...
...Manhattan's Greenwich Village, working by day, writing by night, and coming to the realization that his art would suffer unless his culture were reflected in his writing: "You see, many of us began by thinking that we were basically heterosexual except for this funny little thing, this sexual habit we had somehow picked up carelessly -- but we weren't homosexuals as people. Even the notion of homosexual culture would have seemed comical or ridiculous to us, certainly horrifying...
...world at large is not in the habit of regarding the German question as a laughing matter. The pundits view it with the utmost gravity; they can, of course, draw on abundant evidence from the past to justify their alarm. It is not for me to quarrel with their pronouncements, but what they fail to see is the ludicrous side of German events. I should like to redress the balance. Granted that the opening of the Berlin Wall was a moment of high drama, but the consequences turned into low comedy almost overnight...
...they were pretty good at it, too. When my grandfather quit smoking in the mid-1960s, he did so not for health reasons, but because he suddenly realized how much money he would save by breaking the habit...
Today, my grandfather would have lots of other, more compelling reasons to quit his habit. He was killing himself, he was killing my grandmother and he was killing my father...