Word: habitant
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...Tufts graduate, said he is pleased with a job that has provided such a natural opportunity for him to continue expanding his education. Lincoln said he found it helpful as a young salesman to know his product from the inside out. Since then, he has made it a habit to read a substantial part of every book published by the University Press--over 100 titles a year...
Lincoln imagines he will not want to give up the habit of reading books in his spare time. But if he should be distracted by camping, sailing, and enjoying retirement, his son might gently ask, "Read any good books lately...
...platform. Ingeniously hidden panels of prison bars quickly move into place for the jail scenes. Jane Greenwood, back for her seventh season, has worked up first-rate costumes, with two exceptions. The nuns of the Order of Saint Clare, to which Isabella aspires, are dressed in black habits, when they were particularly known for wearing white. I don't object to Isabella's wearing light blue, since she is still a novice; but her habit, covered with what seem to be dark smudges, is unbelievably ugly, and suggests that she has been laboring in the grease...
That a change was made at all is remarkable in itself. Harrison still had two years to go on a three-year contract, and Harvard, steeped in the tradition of frugality handed down from its Puritan founders, isn't in the habit of dismissing people whose contracts have not expired. Besides, it is painfully un-Harvardian to fire a coach point blank, and the Athletic Department has carefully cultivated a tradition for easing its athletic mentors out of the picture quietly when they are no longer wanted. So Harvard's sudden decision to relieve Harrison of his duties as ring...
...disliked his stylistic mannerisms. He tells his tales through a troubled, dim, first-person narrator, and he saves the grisly denouement for the last sentence and then prints it in italics, as though that gives it greater shock value. Also repellent at first is the man's habit of stuffing his leisurely, Latinate sentences to repletion with adjectives and adverbs to modify, often tautologically, a stark noun or gruesome verb...