Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Keniston merely repeats it. In his chapter on "Chronic Change and the Cult of the Present," he argues that the dynamism of our culture and technology make it unwise to settle on a permanent personal orientation. Then he echos this thought twice in succeeding paragraphs (illustrating not only his habit of repeating himself, but also his penchant for listing nearly synonymous adjectives in series...
...nine players on the first three lines starred for the St. Lawrence freshmen last season. While the varsity made a steady habit of losing, the freshmen built up a 13-1 record...
Centuries of strife and poverty have made enmity a habit and cooperation a rarity in Asia. Last week the Asians took a giant stride away from the old ways and toward a spirit of mutual help. Meeting in Manila, 160 delegates from 26 nations (18 of them Asian) put the finishing touches on the long-needed Asian Development Bank launched in October in Bangkok. After intense but polite lobbying on all sides to win a nod for the location of the new bank's headquarters, the Asian delegates unexpectedly settled on Manila...
...then stumbles into every conceivable temptation. His parents object to the company he keeps, so he moves in with a chic call girl, played by fiery Mexican Beauty Kitty de Hoyos, whose claim to fame loses nothing in translation. Because his hooker cannot support both him and her drug habit forever, Chico starts peddling heroin, ultimately resumes using...
...quite capable of contempt for orthodoxy." No one rates more admiration than veteran Diplomat Averell Harriman, "who said what he believed and cared not a damn for anything but getting the policy right." He was known among Foggy Bottom types as "the Crocodile," reports Schlesinger, "for his habit of abruptly biting off proposals which seemed to him stupid or irrelevant...