Word: habitant
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...women keep diaries?...Dissatisfaction with the way love and work have been defined for the female is the unconscious impulse that prompts many to pour out their feelings on paper and to acquire the habit of personal accounting on some more or less regular basis. --from the Foreword to Revelations...
...football player strides in. Years of knocking other people over, beating them down the sideline, and winning have given him the habit of exuding confidence. He's sure of everything he does...
...interview with Paris-Match. Though his bride eschewed Max Factor for a coating of pig fat and soot, reports Obakharok, it seems the chief came down with a case of marital blahs on his wedding night. Even the prayers of his villagers ("Make our beloved chief, so valiant by habit, draw his bow for his new wife"), failed to work. Worse yet, concludes Obakharok, the island police arrived a few days after his marriage to expel Sargent from New Guinea, leaving the chief with only seven native wives, six children-and no dowry...
...Curlies" is an inexcusably lame song, whose main reason for inclusion would appear to be the phrase "She's got you by the balls." The Stones have felt obliged to stick a couple of dirty words on each of their last three records. By now, the irreverence of this habit is boring; the irrelevance of it is overwhelming. At least "Sweet Virginia" and "Star Star," the previous examples of this peepee-doodoo indulgence, were decent songs...
When government funds were sharply cut back in the late 1960s and early 1970s, requiring the GSAS to cut student enrollment, many faculty were simply "out of the habit" of conducting sections and tutorials, as Kiely points...