Word: habitable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...table where our interpreters operated microphone equipment for simultaneous translation. By the door, a portable table carried ginger ales and fruit juice drinks. Three of our delegates snapped pictures of the meeting. Several of the Cubans smoked cigars. I could see that some of us had picked up the habit of smoking Cuban cigars. They had a very mild taste--sometimes almost sweet. One of the officials began. "Comrades and friends, we welcome your delegation. Today we will exchange discussion on the history of Cuba from the beginning of U.S. imperialism in the 1890s to the triumph of the revolution...
...financial and human cost of the heroin plague is horrendous. In fiscal 1973, according to Bartels' estimate, heroin addicts required $5.6 billion to support their habit. More than half of that, authorities believe, comes from crime. If DuPont is correct when he says that "we can no longer talk about turning the corner on heroin anywhere," crime is likely to increase...
...think there has been a tendency in the past few years for coed friendship groups to form, in which occasionally there will be sexual contact between some of the members--often there'll be one or two people in the group who make a habit of picking up the others in sexual encounters--but where it's totally superficial if it happens at all that...
...fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes, who injects a "seven-per-cent solution" at the opening of The Sign of the Four, was supposedly a cocaine freak. A new book appropriately titled The Seven-Per-Cent Solution even has Holmes lured to Vienna, where Freud helps him kick the habit...
...individual and organizational side of politics. He does not minimize the role of TV in modern campaigning, but in an age when bigness and bureaucracy seem to stifle individual effort, it is a comfort to find O'Brien still preaching the practicality of the personal touch. From the habit of using a "guest book" at political receptions (begun as a way to compile mailing lists at Jack Kennedy coffee hours in 1952), O'Brien's accent has been on candor and grass-roots contact. He argues that within reason, plain talk is good politics...