Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...novel by Wright Morris, in which specified sentences proved to be almost word for word the same as the lines in the diary. The novel was part of a selection issued to Peace Corps members in Tanzania for their book lockers, and Kinsey testified that he had formed the habit of jotting down excerpts from books while majoring in literature at college. Dr. Gerald C. Dockeray, a pathologist who appeared for the defense, told the court that Peverley's head wounds were so severe that a "colossal force" must have been used. In his opinion, the multiple fractures were...
...biggest problem promises to be too many columnists. All three of the old dailies had picked up the habit of accumulating columnists, and last week Conniff faced the task of finding space for Pundits Walter Lippmann, Joseph Alsop, Rowland Evans, Robert Novak, Henry J. Taylor, William F. Buckley Jr., William S. White, Bob Considine and Jim Bishop. For sports, there were Red Smith, Bill Slocum and Jimmy Cannon. And then, besides Buchwald and Schaap, there were Walter Winchell, Harriet Van Home, John McClain, Frank Farrell...
About four or five comets are discovered in an average year, according to Brian Marsden of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory: approximately half by amateurs who make a habit of searching for them. "This has been an unusually slow year," he said...
...very personal observation, and on the basis of the very personal suffering he underwent during World War II at the scene of the story. But for Mr. Grossman's great talent, there would have been no Shop on Main Street, and I fail to comprehend why the American habit of giving credit where credit is due is being so flagrantly overlooked in this case...
...Hardin reportedly left for the West Coast a year or two ago aboard a Greyhound bus with the intention of "kicking the habit" enroute. People have told me for some time that Hardin is the best white male blues singer they ever heard. They were right: His "Old Time Smuggling Man" was great...