Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stiff rules that govern the life of his followers New converts, for example, no longer have to give up smoking-although they are often assigned to jobs as Boy Scout leaders or Sunday school teachers, where the need to give good example constrains them to abandon the habit voluntarily...
Whenever they hear that he is heading their way, U.S. diplomats overseas blanch with dismay. For Ellender has a habit of saying what he thinks-and what he says does not often contribute to international amity. While visiting Korea in 1956, for example, Ellender announced that the South Koreans, then considered good U.S. allies, were nothing better than "bloodsuckers." He found the public market in Mogadishu, Somalia "untidy," but nothing as compared with the "filth" of those in Addis Ababa. He noted that in Nepal "the streets were filled with people. Apparently the citizens do not work very much...
...forearms-toughened by summers of "throwing" concrete and gravel-propel the puck toward the net at 90 m.p.h. What sometimes seems like uncanny accuracy comes from Howe's study of every goalie's weakness: "Some are vulnerable to rebounds-like Glenn Hall of Chicago. He has a habit of falling backward when he makes a save. Jacques Plante of Montreal doesn't always cover the corners...
...Anything. Debussy succinctly defined his approach to musical composition with his reply to the registrar at the Paris Conservatory after that solemn traditionalist became exasperated with the student's habit of making up weird chords What rule are you following? demanded the registrar. Said Debussy: "Mon plisesir." Debussy's pleasure, almost from the time he entered the conservatory at the age of ten, was to break most of the accepted rules of composition. His music was full of dissonances, wildly assorted chords, conflicting rhythmic patterns...
...York's only Reform Democratic Congressman does not think integrity and success are mutually exclusive in American politics. He is a man of principle with a habit of winning...