Word: habited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Canadian artist: "Some of those sailors are on the march. They're really going places." Maggie's first art class is breaking up as its members get transferred to new ships. But Commander Law's pupils say they will keep on painting-and spread the habit through the Royal Canadian Navy...
Jomo for Jesus. Reinforced with regular troops, Sir Evelyn Baring, Kenya's newly appointed governor, felt strong enough to hit back at the Mau Mau (the Lancashire Fusiliers, noting the Mau Mau habit of nailing headless cats to their victims' doors, christened the terrorists Meow-Meows). Armored cars roared out along the main highways, spotter planes swooped low over the Kiyuyu reserve. Covered by the Fusiliers, Kenya cops grabbed hundreds of suspected terrorists in Nairobi's native quarter, pounced on scores of others lurking in forest hideouts...
Rhinelander is a tall man with sharply-cut features and a shock of reddish-brown hair that is fighting a losing battle with his bald spot. He sounds like Nigel Bruce, the radio Sherlock Holmes, except that he has a habit of emitting a short, high-pitched grunt when he speaks. Instead of doodling, students often tote up Rhinelander's grunts per minute in the margin beside their lecture notes...
Rhinelander can trace his life's activities in a circle. Born in Cambridge, he majored in Classics and philosophy at Harvard. After graduation, he struck off into law. His trial work during the '30s left him with the habit of pacing up and down while he talks, as if he were before a jury. But Rhinelander soon found the law a bit dull--"no more than fitting together pieces of a jigsaw puzzle." The more abstract fascinations of his former field tugged him back toward Harvard, and just before the war, he took a job in the Classics department...
Texas. To nobody's surprise, Governor Allan Shivers came out flatly for Ike. Said he: "This year of decision is a time to place principle above party and the interests of our state and nation above tradition and habit ... I fear that Stevensonism will be Trumanism with a Harvard accent...