Word: habitant
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Much of the time, in his slow, expensive efforts at perfection, Minnelli drives writers, producers, actors and technicians quietly out of their habit-hardened professional minds. But he does it so gently, and always for such excellent reasons, that they end up, as his producer Arthur Freed says, by "loving him." Says his cutter, George White, "He may drive you crazy but he gets what he's after. For a guy who has that much on the ball, I'll string along...
...days, their sperm counts fell well below the minimum for fertility, and they remained sterile for 67 days. Dr. Pincher, following up this study, investigated hospital and domestic bath temperatures which range from 105 to 110°. Putting two & two together, he suggested that the modern hot bath habit may be largely responsible for the declining birth rate in "civilized" countries...
...locked front door which oddly keeps opening in the dead of night; the newspaper clipping about the murder in the little girl's scrapbook; the little boy's curious addiction to a raucous recording of There'll Be Some Changes Made; his disquietingly systematic habit of hanging a toy elephant in his nursery window and lying awake watching it; his inexplicably intense hatred of his new governess. As sophisticated Producer John Houseman and his players knock these and other ingredients against each other, they give off an occasional resonance that makes your flesh creep for the nearest...
...Jefferson Davis died (1889), brash young Lloyd George, bubbling over with a reformer's fervor, won a seat in Parliament. His sharp tongue quickly made him enemies. In the wholesale barrage of criticism he inspired, he was charged with everything but cowardice. Belaboring Lloyd George became a Parliamentary habit. During his long career, he was denounced (among other things) for pacifism, for hypocrisy, for devising soak-the-rich budgets, for tactlessness...
Since Moses. Although Britons are notoriously creatures of habit who love to eat the food to which they are accustomed, however dull it may be, Lord Woolton was not destined to attain the unpopularity of Leon Henderson or Jimmy Byrnes. He had not lived at University Settlement, Liverpool, without learning how to appeal to the ordinary Englishman. He taught them to do without things they had eaten all their lives-and not mind...