Word: habited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After our south-of-the-border readers approved the experiment, it became the forefather of the various international editions which made The Weekly Newsmagazine as much of a weekly habit in Rangoon as it is in Chicago...
...industrial paralysis and its failure to raise the standard of living. Boris Kidric, Tito's No. 1 economist, declared: "Soviet theory sometimes seems to be very funny . . . [We] ought to pay enormous attention to the development of capitalist economy . . . We must get rid of narrowness, that basic provincial habit...
...varsity lacrosse team has the habit of playing either very good or very bad lacrosse. It could play any brand of ball this afternoon on M.I.T.'s Briggs Field and probably trounce the hapless Beavers. Coach Bruce Munro, however, would like his squad to settle down, since only three days remain before the crucial home game with Williams...
...Figaro" is not successful. Since the actors who play Count Almaviva and his retinue are not singing the roles, we should have the right to expect good acting and pleasing countenances. Instead, they posture and grimace with little sense of what is happening. Especially annoying is Angela Hauff's habit, in the role of Susanna, of smiling in all the wrong places. Perhaps she was smiling at the efforts of director George Wildhagen...
...girls do not look alike in physical appearance (the average freshman is five feet and a half inches tall and has a 25.4 waist), they dress alike. The studied sloppiness is a habit which is acquired shortly after entrance into the freshman year and is not forgotten throughout the college career, sometimes even later. The white men's shirt and dungarees is not as typical here as it is at other women's colleges, but it is far from rare...