Word: habitable
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...Assad and his government were initially suspicious of Kissinger's moves and aims. Thus the Secretary had to take pains to reassure Assad that the U.S. really did have Arab interests at heart. During the talks Kissinger discovered that Syrian staff work was poor and that Assad had the habit of haggling over positions he had previously appeared to accept...
...Never put off till tomorrow," exhorted Lord Chesterfield in 1749, "what you can do today." That the elegant earl never got around to marrying his son's mother and had a bad habit of keeping worthies like Dr. Johnson cooling their heels for hours in an anteroom attests to the fact that even the most well-intentioned men have been postponers ever. Quintus Fabius Maximus, one of the great Roman generals, was dubbed "Cunctator " (Delayer) for putting off battle until the last possible vinum break. Moses pleaded a speech defect to rationalize his reluctance to deliver Jehovah...
...with wild-animal footage. It was probably intended to convey a notion of the primitive majesty Ross was leaving behind, but after a while it comes to seem like padding, like rather elaborate vacation footage. A true or deep sense of this land, of the people who in habit it, or indeed of the two men who help supervise and maintain it, stays, like a deft game animal, just out of range...
...mystery will soon have a new store of ammunition. Hopefully they will make better use of it than Texan professor Anthony Kubek made of a batch of dispatches from wartime China that the Senate Judiciary Committee decided to publish three years ago. That committee, which is not in the habit of collecting scholarly information on the Far East, obtained this material in 1945 in a rather spectacular fashion. After an agent of the OSS (wartime precursor of the CIA) noticed passages from a classified report printed verbatim in the left-wing journal Amerasia, he alerted his superiors, touching...
Streak Hitting. Though once a sloppy defenseman, Rightfielder Jackson now makes a habit of circus catches and bullet throws to the infield and home. Last October Jackson tormented the New York Mets in the World Series as he led the A's in hitting and spectacular outfield defense. For his efforts, he was named Most Valuable Player of the league and the series. The awards merely underscored what everyone in baseball already knew-Reginald Martinez Jackson is the best player on the best team in the sport...