Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With Roscoe Mayo Holdeman, superlatives became a habit. At 21, he was the youngest, most talkative, most engaging U.S. Army major that the good people of northeast Mississippi had ever seen. Above his officer's pinks and forest-green shirt he wore the most dazzling decorations (the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Purple Heart). He had lived through the most spine-tingling experiences imaginable, on all possible battlefronts (strafing Nazi tanks in North Africa, being rescued by the French underground after a crash landing in occupied Europe, shooting it out with Jap Zeros over the South Pacific). When red-haired...
Politicians make a habit of saying things that will please almost everybody, and Mayor Tobin had a made-to-order situation at the football writers' luncheon, so be said just what everybody wanted: It was a great game, and it's nice that neither team was beaten. That more or less covered the situation, for B. C.'s visit to the Stadium had resulted in a hard-hitting, exciting contest that made up in crowd appeal what it may have lacked in finesse. A quick look at the statistics will show that 6-6 was a fair score...
Writing books on boxing is a habit with Nat Fleischer. The life story of Terry McGovern, who ruled the bantam and featherweight classes in 1899 and 1900 respectively, is his 39th. His previous 38 have sold more than 1,000,000 copies, How to Box and Training for Boxers together sold 200,000 copies. Nat Fleischer's All-Time Ring Record Book is a model of accuracy and completeness...
Douglas is a precision instrument himself, a man of almost fantastically unvarying habit, and of a simple efficiency that is metronomic in its ticktock exactitude...
Throughout the amazing interior is a collection of museum pieces and antiques--the result of an unfortunate habit of 'Poon alumni of storing their attic overflows in the Sanctum. A fine suit of medieval Japanese armor stands at the south window of the Great Hall, and has occasionally been donned by the President during police raids. The window itself contains pieces of 14th century stained glass from the Church of St. Augustine at Canterbury, England...