Word: habitable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...government. "No one," he has said, "should count on me to renounce everything in which I believe." Legally, he could dissolve the National Assembly and call for new elections. That was a tactic employed by DeGaulle in 1968 to frighten voters into supporting him; unfortunately, French voters have a habit of reinforcing their views in such second elections, which might mean an even larger leftist majority in the next Assembly...
PEOPLE SOMETIMES leave an Ionesco play feeling stupid. A crazy avalanche of absurdity has careened down and bowled them over, and they're left almost punchy, distanced from the world. Some intellectual force of habit makes them feel uneasy, as though they are missing out by not having a clear picture of what arises out of Rhinocerous or The Bald Soprano--some coherent and all-embracing recollection of a theme on all its levels...
Says one of Premier Kakuei Tanaka's advisers: "The Americans have fallen into the habit of taking the Japanese for granted because they have taken for granted that they will always be governed by the Liberal Democratic Party. They had better wake up to the fact that the L.D.P. is now in trouble. And when the L.D.P. is in trouble, it means the U.S.-Japan security treaty is in trouble too. Think about...
...told me he had snorted two caps of heroin his first afternoon in the country-his first hard drugs ever-and had taken a hit every day since. He wanted to get off the habit, but somehow could not, despite his complaints of constipation, cramps and constant vomiting. Although he had been in Viet Nam only nine months and was in his early 20s, he seemed spent-almost middleaged...
...untreated, the baby might have suffered a convulsion, which could have been fatal, or have died a slower death by dehydration. But the signs have become all too familiar to inner-city doctors. The child's mother was a narcotics addict, and he was suffering withdrawal from the "habit" forced upon him in the womb...