Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...highest of academic rankings; of cancer; in Hobe Sound, Fla. "The Old Head," as his boys called him, forged Choate in his image; strongly Episcopal in his insistence on compulsory chapel, staunchly ethical in his devotion to the honor system, fresh and human in his habit of occasionally dismissing classes for a hike in the mountains. John F. Kennedy was one of the graduates who remembered his frequent exhortation: "Ask not what your school can do for you, but what you can do for your school...
Mark Odom Hatfield is a lay preacher of the fundamentalist Baptist Church, a teetotaling former university dean (Willamette) who gave up smoking because he did not want to lead his students into temptation. Hatfield has since adopted a habit that is a lot harder to forsake: running for public office. At 43, he has won five consecutive contests for assorted posts as a Republican in normally Democratic Oregon, is just finishing off his second four-year term as Governor. Since he was barred by Oregon's constitution from seeking a third successive term, Hatfield obviously had to find another...
...real chance. On the first ballot (taken Jan. 3, after the Council's inauguration), Sullivan had received four votes. His name had been placed in nomination by William G. Maher, a new Councillor who had made a strong and forceful speech. Alfred E. Vellucci, who has a habit of voting for himself, had broadly hinted that he would switch to Sullivan in due course...
Boys view a film explaining changes at puberty, which includes a stern warning about masturbation-"a careless habit that leads to unhappy thinking." Girls see a film about menstruation. By seventh grade, the kids are asking, "How is the number of children regulated by parents?" The answers sometimes prudishly shade the truth; asked about contraceptives, one teacher replies: "I say they are sold to married people, and I stress their unreliability...
...those who cannot kick the coat habit, fashion designers are now serving up fun furs instead of practical parkas. Some are strictly fluff and nonsense, like Revillon of Saks Fifth Avenue's $5,550 chinchilla jacket with matching boots. Others are almost tough enough to tumble in, like Walt Stiel's $375 mustang, stenciled to look like giraffe. Still others have prices that are actually fun, like McGregor's $50 mock crocodile jacket...