Word: habitability
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...consequences of this move for the innocent Lawrence were traumatic. He underwent a rude sexual awakening when a Turk captured and sodomized him at the height of the rebellion. From then on, Lawrence was lost to consuming guilt and shame and soon after the assault, Lawrence took up the habit, repeated regularly until his death, of paying a fellow soldier to whip him mercilessly as an act of stimulating penance...
...historical parallels are obvious. Lenin's overthrow of the 400-year-old tsardom was not enough, Schwarz seems to say; he must come back again to erase the habit of servility from his people's souls. Only a Lancelot, he implies, can end the Russian people's submission to dictators who promise them peace and quiet...
...seems that Charles Walter Hagen never kicked the habit of showing up unexpectedly at first tees after that first day when he skipped out of his seventh grade classroom and headed for the clubhouse...
...laxmen have now defeated MIT for the mythical Cambridge championship 16 years in a row. In recent seasons, Harvard has made a habit of going into the MIT game with a record of something like 0-8 and then picking on the Engineers for its first...
Wolbach speaks jerkily, emphasizing most of the words in his sentences. This habit; combined with his propensity for Elizabethan phrases, makes his speech hard to understand. But having been at the Observatory for 25 years, he knows a lot about the backwaters of the place. In one continuous phrase, he sums up the history of the Observatory, commenting in passing on everything from Astro 1 (" ... the Harvard freshman course, which at one time, ahem, was a gut or football course") to the nature of astronomy (...there is a great deal of continuity in this science, unlike many others...