Word: habitating
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...Fibbing: "It is not my habit to employ duplicity or artifice. But I want to make it clear that I am not Billy Budd. Billy Budd was a schmuck...
There was no doubt among board members that France's new policies will have an impact on European economic thinking. This might be another example of what Tumlir saw as the political habit, exhibited in everything from trade policy to exchange rates, of using "a substitution of incantation for analysis." Brittan, though, perceived a benefit for Brit ish Conservatives. Said he: "What happens in France will make a great deal of difference in the development of British politics during the next few years. I think we must record a vote of thanks to the French for giving us three...
Photo's parents are probably resigned by now to her penchant for decorating her bedroom with baseball pictures. "It's my wall of fame," she says, and her habit of baking cakes for the Cardinal squad. "There was one year I only missed keeping score three times," she says. "If I had to go to bed I would write the scores on old sheets...
...student of a play who treats it as a piece of literature becomes accustomed to staging ideal performances in his mind's eye; his imagination becomes his private stage, and his intellect the all-powerful and all-knowing director. This is everyone's reading habit, of course, but for the scholar it can become an obsession that inhibits his capacity to follow someone else's approach on the live stage. He is always comparing what is before him to what his imagination remembers, and no matter what is before him, it falls short. At the most ludicrous, he becomes...
...stable condition; his father worries him more. At age 72, Dad has sunk into a lethargy that borders on inertia. Tremont sets him some routine household chores, then coaxes him into the outside world, and the old man begins to show sparks of vitality: "You get in the habit of working and then forget how to have fun." After a minor operation, however, Dad slides into senility. Tremont brings him home from the hospital and tries caring for an incontinent adult incapable of feeding himself. The effort is heroic but doomed. Dad is sent to a nursing home, presumably...