Word: habitant
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Every car illegally parked on local streets this week will be tagged, the traffic bureau announced, and all out-of-state cars will definitely be towed away after their second violation, since their owners "have the habit of ignoring summonses...
...busy priest had little time or patience for formalities. Mostly he dressed in slacks and a sports shirt, and wore his priest's habit only on formal occasions. Learning that a child who died in St. Monica's might have been benefited by Mexican scorpion serum, which was then barred by customs regulations, Father McLoughlin deliberately smuggled some of the serum across the border...
...colonel develops a nasty habit of passing the death sentence on everybody who frustrates or annoys him. Sooner or later, most of his ex-Army pals get on his nerves. Eventually he gets so careless about who is hanged that his wife (Ellen Drew) and his best friend (William Hoiden) run out on him. A lot of the town-folk still regard him as a hero, but at this point the movie becomes an unusual western by seeming to ask: "Is there a psychiatrist in the house...
...Ibsen, or Nietzsche, or Schopenhauer, or some other subversive foreigner. "I confess," cried Shaw (in 1906), "there is something flattering in this simple faith in my accomplishment as a linguist and my erudition as a philosopher." But it was high time, he said, for him to scotch this "unpatriotic habit" by setting the critics straight...
...nonetheless, he believed in "God"-a Butler-made vital spirit of whom he Shavianly said: "God is not so white as he is painted, and he gets on better with the Devil than people think." Like Carl Jung, he believed in a collective unconscious-an inborn "memory" of human habit and behavior handed down through the generations. The art of living, he held, was to keep a tricky but common-sensical balance between this vital inheritance and the equally vital capacity for adaptation...