Word: habitable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...illogical for the Congress to say, "Sixty-four per cent of the people did not want a Communist government. A Communist government tends to be irreversible. Therefore we are going to vote for the number two man." This is perfectly within their constitutional prerogatives. However, the constitutional habit has developed that Congress votes for the man that gets the highest number of votes. But then, of course, it has never happened before that the man with the highest number of votes happens to represent a non-democratic party, which tends to make his election pretty irreversible. I have...
...carried a bulging wallet in his hip pocket. He speculated that the wallet might be pressing against the sciatic nerve and suggested that the physician remove it. When he did, his pain disappeared. Gould's theory was confirmed when he developed the same ailment. Golfer Gould's habit of carrying golf balls in his left back pocket never bothered him until he rode around the course in a golf cart. Then he too developed-and just as quickly cured-his own case of the back-pocket blues...
...Your habit of quoting comments that were never made again illustrates the media misconduct that the National Citizens' Committee for Fairness to the Presidency has been exposing. Your sorry tactics will only add fuel to the fire of public hostility against...
...alien has penetrated Muhlbach's life and opened vistas he can never exhaust. Not certain whether his response is to beauty or authenticity, Muhlbach nonetheless responds. Yet he is aware of some disquieting side effects: increasing pangs of greed for what he can appreciate but not afford, a habit of judging people by their acquisitions -and of being judged and found wanting in return. Muhlbach knows that his addiction lends moral support to a rapacious modern traffic in antiquities; operating on his behalf, grave robbers and smugglers struggle to finish the dispersal of pre-Columbian civilizations begun...
There's not much need for a lot of the competition that pervades Harvard life, but it's easy to see why it goes on and why students accept it. When people come here, they've probably already fallen into the habit of drawing their self-esteem through their achievements and not anything more abstract. So at Harvard, an achievement-oriented place, people stay within their old patterns of self-identification. Harvard is the kind of place where you can feel more like a person if you're in Social Studies, say, than...