Word: habitability
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...gendarmes in a Black Maria. Terrail also relates that a distinguished Roman Catholic prelate, Monsignor Fernand Maillet, loved late dinners at La Tour. "As he was obliged by ecclesiastical rules to stop eating at midnight so that he could conduct early morning Mass," Terrail says, "he was in the habit of turning his watch back an hour so that he could have a Sainte Geneviève soufflé." An ardent addict is Ava Gardner, who once called the restaurant at 11 p.m., when all the cooks had gone home, and asked if she could have dinner. "Certainement," said Terrail...
...restore some measure of confidence and faith in the political system," McGovern said, "we have to restore the habit of truth to the conduct of public business...
Older bystanders watched the demonstrators with as much wonder and surprise as they might have observed visitors from Mars, looking over their shoulders with the ingrained habit of decades to see what the police or the soldiers would do. For the moment the authorities did nothing. The city police had been withdrawn for their own protection, so that mobs would not mistake them for the odious D.G.S. men and lynch them, and army troops stood idly by. It was doubtful, however, that Spínola, who was somewhat alarmed at the city's mood, would let the leftists...
...getting to be a habit, and the Red Sox are having a hard time breaking it. That habit is losing, and the Bosox did it again yesterday for the third time in a row, and the eighth in the last nine games. Bill Stoneman and Rudy May combined to give the California Angels a 4-2 victory over the Sox in Fenway Park...
...ratio is now one woman for every four men. These figures may in fact be understating the problem for women, because a nonworking woman, who does not have to punch a time clock or stand scrutiny in the office, finds it easier than her husband might to hide her habit. One alcoholic housewife in Miami admitted stashing Clorets in every jacket pocket and downstairs drawer to disguise her liquor breath from unexpected callers. Others try to hide their alcoholic breath by sipping Listerine, Scope or vanilla extract...