Word: habitant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trade with Detroit), and Manager Cookie Lavagetto tried nine other candidates before settling on Killebrew. But once the season began, Killebrew took dead aim on the fences, in the space of twelve days hit two homers in each of four games. In the field he still has a bad habit of spearing balls one-handed. But his batting average has held up well, is currently an acceptable...
...Year. Only on the subject of Red China's repeated issuance of maps showing large chunks of Indian territory as belonging to the Chinese state ("cartographic aggression," one paper called it) did Nehru show warmth. He complained that this Communist habit "has been a factor in creating continual irritation...
White's The Cage, set in an extravagantly funny frame of tangled step-ladders and window-casings, concerns an encounter between a stranger and the residents of a thoroughly inhabited apartment house. The stranger has assumed responsibility for the continued existence of a squirrel, who has a careless habit of jumping off the apartment roof--always into the stranger's arms...
Mystery in the Den. In the years that followed, Lemnitzer settled purposefully into the orderly routine of the peacetime Army, started early his habit of retiring behind his "bear's den" door at night to read newspapers, magazines, technical journals ("I don't know," says wife Kay, "whether he goes in there to work, or read, or snooze"). He became the formidable but revered "Pop" to their two children: son William, now an Army captain and assistant professor of chemistry at West Point, and daughter Lois, wife of Artillery Lieut. Henry E. Simpson at Fort Sill, Okla...
...comrades only on the promise that he would give back on Saturday everything he had stolen during the week. Prosniak became a bona fide hero, killing dozens of Japanese-so he could collect souvenirs from their bodies. Then there was Lieut. Peter Claver Kenton, a delightful dipsomaniac with a habit of absenting himself from duty to work part time as a bowling-alley pin boy and as a desk clerk in a whorehouse...