Word: habitable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...outside observer who is caught in his own trap?the habit of stereotyped thinking?migrants are immobilized by their despair. In fact, as Coles repeatedly demonstrates, most of them never give up ar,d so could respond to help if only it were offered. "There's no point to feeling sorry for yourself, or else you want to go and die by the side of the road," one migrant woman told Coles. "Some day that will happen...
When he's high, JJ (Segal) can talk sweetly enough to charm an elephant into a birdcage; waiting for a fix, shriveled and twitchy, he is at the mercy of his habit, dependent on others...
However, soon after DePriest's election, the economic collapse following the Stock Market Crash threatened the Republican party with political bankruptcy. The mass of black voters brought up in the tradition of total support of the Republican ticket found it hard to break the habit. In the election of '32 only 23 per cent of Chicago's blacks voted for Roosevelt...
...aware of it. I think that the present cultural scene is so changing, that to try to orient yourself very distinctly is just to make yourself sad and miserable. You get into a professional situation where you are a writer, you do it out of habit, you must write a certain number of words a day, the older you get the more old-fashioned you become...
...York Mets of 1969, the pesky upstarts who won the World Series against lopsided odds. Like the miracle Mets, the Dolphins were a Cinderella team that rallied from defeat to challenge for the championship. They were young. They had the rabid backing of their fans. They made a habit of come-from-behind victories. And, headed by those happy Hungarians, Running Backs Larry Csonka and Jim Kiick, they professed the kind of fraternity-brother togetherness that promised to conquer...