Word: habitant
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...University may take pride in its lack of titled pre-medical concentrators, or its habit of calling engineering students "applied science" concentrators. But this nebulous naming of fields of concentration, combined with a reluctance to give information about them, leaves Freshmen somewhat befuddled about their future courses of study...
...Government. At first, the black man's habit of deferring to the white impeded business: instead of making up their own minds, the black ministers looked to the governor for decisions. But Arden-Clarke soon put a stop to that. "That's for you chaps to decide," he told Nkrumah. "After all, you are the government...
Tightwad. In Sacramento, cops who questioned Donald Garrett for refusing to pay for the drink he had ordered at a tavern, found $2,500 in his pocket, listened to his explanation: "I'm not in the habit of spending much money on myself...
...language of the Congressional Record (he called Senators "you men" not "the distinguished Senators"). He was inclined to be chatty, but at least part of that was the result of the Senators' tendency to ask him questions which he had already answered. Unaccustomed to the senatorial habit of saying everything three times, he thought they wanted to hear something he hadn't said before...
Maria enjoyed murder so much that she made a habit of it for a while. Felix, who had encouraged her to begin with Marcus, began to wonder if she might not end with him. His mind was set at rest, though his prospects were unhinged, when another young soldier, Constans, killed Gratianus and Maria, and raised another "emperor" to the purple. Felix, of course, had to flee for his life, and so found himself sitting miserably in his bog, trying to be stoic about...