Word: habitant
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...sympathetic federal prosecutor, the "worst type of parasite you can imagine" used to follow her around, charge $100 a dose for narcotics they sold to other addicts for as little as $5. By that time, Billie was looking gaunt, singing badly, and had fallen into the exasperating habit of walking out on waiting audiences without explanation...
Victory had become a habit with Nell. Since her first race in competition, six years ago (in which she placed second), she has never been beaten, now holds more titles than she can remember. One reason for her endurance: during wartime in German-occupied Holland, she lived most of the time with friends and relatives in the country, pedaled a bicycle on 100-mile trips to visit her home in Amsterdam...
...Right Wave Length. Clifford presents a serene front to the world and is outwardly patient and smiling at all times. But he is a serious man who gets to the White House early-a habit much admired by early-rising Mr. Truman-and stays late. One of the chief reasons for Clifford's rise has been his methodical practice of meticulously copying down the thoughts of the various men around the President, carefully sorting them out and then presenting them in a manner which suits Harry Truman to a T. As Mrs. Clifford proudly expresses it: "Clark...
Saint-Gaudens had gone to work at twelve as an apprentice cameo-cutter, and early acquired the habit of taking infinite pains with details. He spent 14 years on the Shaw Memorial (see cut) and he modeled 40 Negro heads for it before deciding on the 16 he finally used. Such painstaking appealed to Henry Adams' New England genius, and Saint-Gaudens' talent for mirroring vast ideas in bronze made him just the man, Adams thought, to create a memorial for Mrs. Adams' tomb...
...Worthy Habit. This is scarcely strange, since among millions of Christians religion itself is little more than a worthy mental habit, socially manifested in church attendance often more sporadic and much less disturbing than regular visits to the dentist...