Word: habitant
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Some opera fans still attend out of habit or as a means of social climbing; if they seem contemptible to the real opera lover, they are abundantly punished by having to sit through hours of music they don't really enjoy. Some come as cultists: just as bullfight aficionados find macabre joy in waiting for the matador to be gored, operagoers can wait in horrible human fascination for the soprano to go flat at the end of Vissi d'arte or to fall downstairs in the mad scene of Lucia. In its own way, by the nearly impossible...
Smiting the wicked became a habit. During World War II, he wrote a letter warning Japanese Emperor Hirohito: "Surrender or be totally annihilated and become extinct." Three months later the atom bomb fell on Hiroshima. As Father Divine put it: "Things just don't happen. Things happen just...
...triune nature of God. Although Pike has plenty of critics among the hierarchy, they boggled at the thought of anything so drastic and medieval as a heresy trial. Nonetheless, the bishops' theological committee initially drafted a sharp reprimand that cleared Pike of heresy but deplored his habit of expressing controversial doctrinal views in public. When Pike threatened to make a public defense of his orthodoxy, the bishops on the committee had second thoughts and started to work out a compromise. What they wrote was a formal statement aimed at Pike that wasn't quite a reprimand; this...
...English words in which the odd and the even letters spell two complete words: tinily and renal. The longest English word that can be typed in the top letter line of a typewriter is-typewriter? The longest English word without an e in it is floccinaucinihilipilification (the action or habit of estimating things as worthless...
Because of its stability, security and superior buying power, the dollar is eagerly sought by foreigners. Last week the Federal Reserve's Martin called "a fact of financial life" the habit foreign nations have of supporting their faltering currencies with dollars. Shopkeepers in many parts of the world give generous discounts to tourists who pay in dollars. Millionaires in Latin America and other developing areas convert their own currencies into dollars?paying a high premium for the privilege?and often deposit the dollars in U.S. banks...