Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...popular with almost nobody. The country grinned at the G.O.P. jeers: "Don't shoot the piano player, he's doing the best he can," "To err is Truman," "I'm just mild about Harry." Eastern wags even gibed at his farmer's habit of rising early: he did it only to have more time to put both feet in his mouth...
...Angeles Times is not in the habit of running to the public for advice on how to run a newspaper. But last week, in an eye-stopping half-page ad, the Times confessed to doing just that. It was taking the public's "advice"-as expressed in numerous complaints-on how to improve its eight-week-old offspring, the tabloid Mirror...
...have been led to the surely unbiblical habit of speaking as though we had in the church a continuation of the incarnation of the Word of God. If that were so, then manifestly . . . enslaved mankind would have to expect its salvation from us -from our clear grasp of the world's historical situation, from the progress and action and hoped-for future triumphs of the church as the embodiment and representative of Jesus Christ and God Himself. Then one easily got in the way of acting as though the Lord on high were dead ... as though everything took...
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...