Word: habitable
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...imminent in the Balkans, then in Norway and finally, even after Dday, in the area of Calais. "Special means" had created phantom invasion forces in East Anglia, opposite Calais, complete with phony inflatable tanks that looked real from the air and "complaints" from clergymen about the soldiers' habit of discarding condoms. The nonexistent army even had an illustrious commander, General George Patton, during one of his periods of disgrace...
...carries his own precipice around with him under his arm." With that somewhat surrealistic metaphor, an old friend describes Daniel Patrick Moynihan's habit of living close to the edge of trouble through his gift for overstatement and overreaction. But often the statements and reactions are deliberate. When a classified cable from Moynihan blasting the State Department surfaced in the press last week, it looked like the latest gambit in the intrigue between Moynihan and Henry Kissinger...
...Syndrome, Fussell says, has led to "gross dichotomizing...a persisting imaginative habit of modern times, traceable, it would seem, to the actualities of the Great War." He believes the war led to the habit of simple distinction, simplification and opposition. Here he expands his argument to include "paranoid melodrama," the rumor-mongering, and the civilian/soldier dichotomy associated with the war. This latter argument is particularly convincing, since it shows how press censorship and government propaganda suppressing the grim horrors of war alienated the soldier from civilians...
Some delegates fume at his hit-and-run habit of simply walking out of the Council or the General Assembly after delivering a tough speech and letting his deputies handle the fallout. On one such occasion, Moynihan started to stroll out of the Assembly when Saudi Arabia's voluble Ambassador Jamil Baroody was standing at the speaker's rostrum. "Come back, sit down, perhaps you may learn something," Baroody taunted. Moynihan came to an abrupt halt, wheeled around, sat down and peered up at Baroody with a look of exaggerated attention on his face...
GERALD ("Gerry") FORD, center rookie: Only MVP never to have played in majors; when first broke in, had to be cured of habit of stopping line drives with his head; has just recently come to grips with other ways of using...