Word: habitable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...GUARD he was using to prove his point was a weapon with a hair-trigger. The Ohio National Guard is the barony of Gen. Sylvester T. Del Corso, a former Army Colonel with the habit of keeping his office clock four hours fast. Del Corso appeared on televised hearings of the Scranton Commission last summer, sporting a complacent smile and carrying a large rock and a length of steel pipe which he claimed students had thrown at his men. Corso had achieved fame in Ohio before Kent by denouncing Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes as a tool of black revolutionaries...
...with the insurance company and the bank, bought large blocks of the politicians' stock at between 20 and 26. Why?' The SEC documents offer no clue. The Rev. Michael Kennelly, then Strake's president, said that he had not understood the manipulations, but was in the habit of following Sharp's advice. The Rev. Michael Alchediak, Kennelly's successor, said: "We, by our background and whole formation, have tended to be trusting...
PROVIDENCE, R. I., Feb 10-Harvard has an exasperating habit of playing to the level of its competition. Skating against a mediocre but tenacious Brown team, fired by a fanatic SRO crowd here in Providence, the Crimson blew another game they shouldn't have lost...
...broadcast from such centralized sources, the programming must appeal to millions of millions of viewers and be able to manipulate them along the same lines of conditioned response. By these means, not only are the more discrete social enclaves in our culture entirely ignored, but also the destructive habit of unthinking response to formulas is perpetuated. And not only are shows broadcast because of their lowest-common-denominator appeal, but also they insure their own popularity by destroying the audience's ability to appreciate and participate in the creative process...
Page is always confident and cocky before a match. He has a habit of taking the first game of a match lightly, warming up as though he was bored and making sure he has a few behind the back shots on the opening points. Page criticized Terrell last year because he "has a habit of running a weak player into the ground." Page has his own habit of teasing his opponent with a one-arm-tied-behind-my-back approach...