Word: habitable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...various staffs, however, Martin may often have appeared more like a Prussian general. As Ambassador to Thailand and later to Rome, he worked prodigious hours and expected his staff to do the same. He had a habit of waking up in the middle of the night, struck by a thought or insight, and drafting a cable by his bedside or calling up one of his assistants to discuss the matter. "He even dreams diplomacy and power plays," says one associate. For relaxation, he once tried golf but shortly gave it up; he tried swimming and dropped that...
Trying to keep up with ostensible trend setters, bankers, lawyers, doctors and would-be socialites have also taken to snorting coke (also called snow, freeze, flake, lady). The habit was in vogue decades ago, then fell out of style except among pop musicians, some other show-business types and the more prosperous prostitutes and procurers. Yet a recent Government study concluded that the use of coke is now more widespread than of heroin. The same survey estimated that 4.8 million Americans have sampled the drug...
...romantic comedy series about a young bride who has one funny problem -she can read people's minds. The woman with something extra will be Sally Field, who a few seasons ago was a flying nun in an ABC comedy. It is easier, it seems, to kick the habit than dump inane scriptwriters...
...touched at bottom by nostalgia--she still doesn't sound jaded. I picture a middle to late-middle-aged lady with a rather racy past behind her--first a movie pioneer, then a movie regular, now settling into her movie watching position as if keeping faith with a bad habit she deserves. She is caught right up in the screen, wrapped up in it, when suddenly it stumbles. Something smells crooked, a bit dirty. She hasn't asked for much, but when she gets less dressed up as more she sets her instincts loose in revolt. The Big Shots have...
...foreign traveler can literally get lost in the cultural war between the French-and Flemish-speaking peoples of Belgium. By law, all road signs give town names and distances in both languages. Local activists have the habit of obliterating the offending language with black paint. Retaliation in kind follows. A few years ago, while driving to a Brussels suburb, I came to a point where five roads met. There were five direction signs in both languages, all blacked out, leaving me or any other stranger to guess which one to take. Luckily, I spoke both French and Flemish...