Word: habitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Parkhurst, neatly dressed in a dark blue coat and gray flannels, said nothing in his own defense, but his attorney explained that he held a job as an "expediter" during the war in which he had "unlimited funds, and was in the habit of spending freely...
Only explanations offered by the thief are that he "enjoyed a good time" adding later that his robberies were done to aid a girl-friend to cure her of the drug habit. Only visitors to see him since his arrest have been his father and lawyer, and no further details have been available...
With facts & figures, Professor Moore demonstrated that the technique most good players use is scientifically superior: the pendulum stroke, with forearm swinging vertically from the elbow. Unfortunately for Professor Moore's thesis, Willie uses a sidearm stroke. It was a habit he picked up lying belly-to-billiard-table as a boy of five. Said 59-year-old Willie Hoppe: "It's too complicated for me. I guess this analysis came too late to help my game...
...price tag also for multilateral trade agreements by the U.S. Whether these would continue would depend on "the type of competition we confront from foreign state monopolies and from a growing habit abroad of making bilateral agreements for political as well as economic purposes. These habits could force us into defensive tactics which we would not voluntarily embrace...
...more or less of a habit. For ten years John J. Sparkman had taught Sunday school in his home town of Huntsville, Ala. Then he went to Congress, but it did not keep him from his old ways. Three years ago he became the regular Bible teacher for adults at the Hamline Methodist Episcopal Church, meeting his class in the chapel for an hour every Sunday morning. Last week, with Congress once more in session, Methodist Senator Sparkman was back in his Sunday-school job. The topic for study: the Gospel according to St. John...