Word: habitable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decline. "There is a weaker attachment to the Houses than there used to be. The faculty used to enjoy the attachment. It was an amorphous thing, but it did lend something to student-faculty relations. The change may be a by-product of 1969--the habit of getting to the Houses regularly may have been broken. There is a problem in maintaining momentum...
...barge in whenever they see fit. He talks with individual Cabinet heads on a rotating basis. Periodically, members of the intellectual and academic community, rounded up by White House Aide Robert Goldwin, come to lunch or dinner to exchange or offer ideas. The President is also in the habit of soliciting the views of trusted outsiders: longtime Presidential Adviser Bryce Harlow, former Congressman and Defense Secretary Melvin Laird, former Wisconsin Representative John Byrnes, former Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton and William Whyte, a U.S. Steel vice president and lobbyist who also plays golf with the President...
...Shockley in a corner with his portable cassette and he would sit happily, expounding on the virtues of his "Voluntary Sterilization Bonus Plan," oblivious to all. But nobody is willing to do that. Instead college students have this habit of trotting him out under the guise of free speech, to debate something that most of them--like the 600 protesters outside Becton Hall at Yale last week--know already; the non-relativity of racism. The only thing different from Princeton, Indiana or Nebraska was that the Yale hosts concocted even more of a sham...
...Sanders, former Celtic star and coach of a minor sport at Harvard: "The finals! That's too far above my head. Normally speaking, I go with the team that's had the experience, the players that believe they belong there, you know, the ones with the winning habit. So, I'll go with UCLA. Winning championships is an attitude, you know. When you're in the habit of taking 'em, you get that attitude, believe...
...last quarter-mile, Bayi sprinted from the gun. His opponents, recalls Hurdler Tom Hill, "used to sit back at their old pace and say, 'Wow, this fool is going to drop dead on the third lap.' " Trouble was, Bayi never did. He began to make a habit of leaving astonished stars behind him. Last year at the Commonwealth Games in New Zealand, Bayi atomized Jim Ryun's seven-year-old 1,500-meter world record with a time of 3:32.2-equivalent to a 3:49.2 mile. This winter, in his debut on the U.S. indoor circuit...