Word: habited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...infant piglet's life is confused and dangerous, and mom is usually to blame. Some sows eat their young, and many roll on them or trample them to death. Another bad habit of sows is producing more pigs than they can feed properly. The average sow has only eight or ten teats (some of which may not be functioning), and she often farrows as many as 16 pigs. The runts and laggards that don't connect with a functional teat during their early mealtimes are gone pigs. Hunger makes them too weak to compete in later battles...
...Yoorup for Culture. Author Davidson dips into newspapers, letters, diaries and popular songs for added flavor. Whittling, reported a visiting Englishman, Captain Frederick Marryat, "is a habit, arising from the natural restlessness of the American when he is not employed." The New York Evening Post complained (in 1828) about the new fad of men playing ball in the city: "The annoyance has become absolutely intolerable . . . and ought to be put an end to without delay." A generation later, a teamster who had struck it rich in Nevada passed a verdict on U.S. culture: "Ther arn't no chance...
...freshies" in both schools were forced to play a game with the sophomores. They were supposed to kick the ball. But the sophomores had a habit of missing the ball on their kicks, and booted the "freshies" instead. This angered the "freshies" who started to kick back...
...Harvard students. The Board has a further duty to point out to students the risks they run if they Participate. Even if nobody gets killed, some students are likely to depart from Cambridge immediately afterwards at the request of the Dean. And nice little riots have a habit of growing into nasty big riots...
...community. Anyone who wishes to join the order can follow the prescribed training of the novitiate. First, one becomes a postulant, assuming that he is acceptable to the Father Superior. If, after several months, a postulant is satisfied with his new way of life, he may be given the habit of the Society and become a novice. After a novitiate of two or three years, he is eligible for election by the Chapter to life vows, provided he has reached the age of thirty. The novice who is younger may take yearly vows until he "comes of age" Fewer than...