Word: habitant
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...fancied himself as the depressed coach without material who concentrated on character-building-and wasn't very good at that either. "I've got a three-year-old son who sucks his thumb," Jimmy once said. "I've been trying to mold him out of that habit, but the only result is that I'm beginning to suck my own thumb...
...also an examination of weather through the ages-of how people dressed to meet it and how they were helped and hindered in doing so by the architecture of their homes and the demands of current fashion (Queen Elizabeth's habit of ripping her stylish, padded blouse open right down to the navel on warm days greatly shocked the French ambassador). All the elements that have influenced human clothing are touched: war, poverty, industrialization, poetry, hero worship, religion, royal mistresses...
...popular with almost nobody. The country grinned at the G.O.P. jeers: "Don't shoot the piano player, he's doing the best he can," "To err is Truman," "I'm just mild about Harry." Eastern wags even gibed at his farmer's habit of rising early: he did it only to have more time to put both feet in his mouth...
...Angeles Times is not in the habit of running to the public for advice on how to run a newspaper. But last week, in an eye-stopping half-page ad, the Times confessed to doing just that. It was taking the public's "advice"-as expressed in numerous complaints-on how to improve its eight-week-old offspring, the tabloid Mirror...
...have been led to the surely unbiblical habit of speaking as though we had in the church a continuation of the incarnation of the Word of God. If that were so, then manifestly . . . enslaved mankind would have to expect its salvation from us -from our clear grasp of the world's historical situation, from the progress and action and hoped-for future triumphs of the church as the embodiment and representative of Jesus Christ and God Himself. Then one easily got in the way of acting as though the Lord on high were dead ... as though everything took...