Word: habited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disturbing habit of drinking from a bottle in public, shocked fellow guests at a presidential party by taking a hefty slug when the others were raising their glasses in a toast. He addressed a public meeting with a cigarette dangling from his nether lip. Not to be outdone by U.S. Ambassador H. Merle Cochran, who had a shiny blue 1950 Packard, Uncle Barhen acquired a shiny red 19 50 Packard...
...Carry Nation, and furnished with her original bar-smashing hatchet, the satchel in which she carried bricks to bash in saloon mirrors and glasses, her old rocking chair and desk, and a life-sized portrait of the woman who also once urged Britons to give up their intemperate habit of drinking...
What the Post was referring to was the persistent habit of MacArthur's communique writers in jazzing up their bulletins with bumptious prose. Some sampie phrases from last week's communiques: carrier-based planes made attacks that were "slashing" and "in close support of embattled ground troops"; they "swarmed over the entire breadth of Korea." The Navy's shelling was "pinpoint bombardment...
Once again the basketball team showed its unfortunate habit of going almost--but not quite--all the way, as it lost to Army, 62 to 54, Saturday at the Blockhouse. The game was the Crimson's fourth straight loss, and eleventh loss out of 15 contests. The varsity summary: HARVARD (54) G F P Hickey, g 2 0 4 Murphy, g 1 1 3 Urdan 1 1 3 Lionette, c 1 1 3 Stevenson 3 0 6 Gabler, f 4 2 10 Smith (C), f 10 5 25 Totals 22 10 54 The freshman summary: HARVARD...
...only means that they got into the habit of talking to themselves at home because they themselves were the only people they could talk to and get an answer...