Word: habitants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stay, but not in their original duty stations. On the chance that there might be work elsewhere, they began drifting from one outpost to another. They would cruise into Peace Corps stations in the CVSF planes, look around town for a few days, and move on. It became a habit to find out where drifters were hanging out, and go there for short reunions. Most of the drifters couldn't find work and headed for home...
...varsity soccer team has displayed signs recently of developing a habit very familiar to seasoned observers of the Harvard sporting scene: losing games in which it is favored, though winning ones against powerful opponents. This year the soccer team ably demonstrated its ability to carry on this grand tradition by losing to M.I.T. and just scraping by Cornell...
Raymond Radiguet, Cocteau took to opium, later kicked the habit and led a campaign against dope addiction. At moments he could be as sentimental as any Piaf song, which is why it was difficult to take him seriously as a poet of evil. Yet guardians of public morality damned his books (Les Parents Terribles), plays (The Infernal Machine), and films (Beauty and the Beast) as immoral and unhealthy...
...Zurich, does everything wrong. It is tasteless, sensational and sometimes inaccurate. Its headlines scream. It runs prize contests but no editorial page. Its very existence offends the police and the government; some of its readers wrap its gaudy pages in a more august paper to hide their shameful habit from disapproving eyes. But almost every day more and more Swiss resort to this sub- terfuge. After four years of life, Blick proudly claims to have become Switzerland's second largest daily...
Yale had a rather shaky start under new coach John Pont last week, edging a decidedly untalented Connecticut 3-0. One suspects that the victory was achieved through no fault of the current Yale team, but rather through the almost ingrained habit Connecticut has of losing on opening...