Word: habited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President had shown occasional signs of nervous strain, mainly by a growing habit of tapping his foot during moments of tension-and also by getting off the intemperate letters which Presidents might write but don't usually post. He was having some minor tooth trouble which called for new fillings. He was working late at night, and after the checkup-although he still sleeps like a log-Dr. Graham asked him to cut out his early morning exercise (a two-mile walk, a swim, a rubdown) on two days of the week, in order to get more rest...
...effects ("mentally, morally and physically") on children. And even if TV should achieve a lofty cultural level, "the fears expressed by my American friends were not such as could be allayed by the provision of only superior and harmless programs. They were concerned with the television habit, whatever the program might...
Wrote Newshen Fleeson: "The McCarthy admirers have apparently obliged with threatening communications of a type extremely familiar to columnists and commentators who have ventured to comment on the Senator's un-American habit of making unsubstantiated charges and on his curious state income tax returns...
...wars and insurrections, and he acquired a Bohemian notoriety that reads like a composite of Poe and De Quincey. A rebellious spirit, he took a peculiarly joyless pleasure in scandalizing the age. A groundless charge of drug addiction provoked a characteristic response: he concocted a piece on the opium habit...
...heavy and does not move quickly or agilely-Togo Palazzi, whom he was guarding, scored 41 points. Because there is no one on the '54 squad nearly so tall as he, Blodnick does not have to jump for rebounds in scrimmages, something which may develop into a bad habit...