Word: habitability
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...admirable generosity of spirit in allowing women to pick up lunch checks. "I was also delighted," says Morrow, "to give up the little hopping stutter-step necessary to place me on the curbside when walking down the sidewalk with a woman. But I haven't quite abandoned the habit of holding a woman's chair. What I do is place one hand on the back of the chair and then fall into a sort of abstracted trance until the woman is seated, as if I were not entirely responsible for my actions...
TROY, N.Y.--The RPI hockey team, which has made a habit the last two springs of sneaking into the ECAC Division One playoffs just as Harvard is slipping out of them, edged out the Crimson again Saturday night when co-captain Steve Stoyanovich scored a power-play goal just 23 seconds into overtime to give the Engineers a dramatic 6-5 victory here...
Despite the risks of cigarettes, many smokers seem all too willing to take the gamble. In a recent survey, the A.C.S. found that 52% of smokers believe they will get lung cancer. Even so, that fear did not make them kick the habit...
...Myung Moon's slickly professional News World or the Gannett Co.'s strike-born suburban daily Today and may stay with them. Others may do without newspapers altogether, as happened after the 114-day strike of 1962-63, when some 400,000 New Yorkers lost the newspaper habit...
...other Rolling Stones, but faced a possible seven-year jail term when he came to trial. Last week in Toronto he listened somberly as his lawyer described him as "a tragic person" with "a poor self image" who became a heroin addict but who has now kicked the habit. A sympathetic judge put Richard on probation for one year, then tacked on an unusual condition. The guitarist must give a free performance for the Canadian National Institute for the Blind...