Word: habitant
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...delicate as a butterfly's wing, miniatures from Persia, figurines of ivory and jade from lands whose very names were magic-John loved them all and hated to leave them at the end of a working day. Little by little, beginning back in 1930, he developed the habit of taking a few of the smaller bibelots with him as he left for the Chiswick house he shared with his wife Mary...
...Russian Habit Old Russian Habit Sir: Long before ace reporters were ever born to cover the Geneva Conference, William Shakespeare knew the Russian tactics and types of talk bandied by them (Love's Labour's Lost): We jour, indeed, confronted were with four In Russian habit: here they stay'd an hour, And talk'd apace; and in that hour, my lord, They did not bless us with one happy word...
There was, of course, no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment . . . You had to live-did live, from habit that became instinct -in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and except in darkness, every movement scrutinized...
...generation of GOPoliticians missed this lesson because they had no chance to practice it. Unable to attain national authority, the G.O.P. Congressman in New Deal-Fair Deal days had only to satisfy the narrow interests of his own constituency; it was every Republican for himself. It still is. The habit of opposition, born during the years of exile, has not been broken. The appropriate charge against Republican Congressmen is not that of venality, or even of personal selfishness. It is that of a failure to understand the meaning of party responsibility, loyalty and discipline which are fundamental...
...about Spain's civil war-an event that produced a spiritual crisis for Bidault. As a Catholic he was drawn to the Franco side, but as a republican democrat he was drawn to the Loyalist side. In what has since become a well-known-and often infuriating-Bidault habit, he held a kind of parliamentary debate within his mind, eventually summoning up a majority for a decision. The debate in the case of Spain resulted in a series of passionate anti-Franco editorials...