Word: habited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...championships of San Gabriel Valley High Schools. Because of his size, wiry Willie determined to be a jockey, got his first job as an exercise boy on a California ranch three years ago. From the day he brought home his first winner, in April 1949, Willie has made a habit of being either the leading rider or the leading apprentice at every track he has raced...
...reactions are, I am very happy that there has been so much activity and interest in this painting on the part of the students. The more thinking the painting stirs up, the happier I am. Even if understanding is at first missing, eventually the students will, by the habit of seeing it over and over again, get used to it and by experience will learn to understand and perhaps to like it. Herbert Bayer
...porter in the Atlanta drugstore of his uncle Asa Griggs Candler. When Candler bought the Coca-Cola formula from the druggist who invented it, young Dobbs became its first salesman, boomed it locally as "Delicious & Refreshing" instead of as a headache remedy, later began to make it a national habit by spending millions (over Candler's objections) on advertising...
...movie also spars with the hero's problem as a Mexican-American whose hypersensitivity as a member of a minority group warps all his personal dealings. But it falls into the bad Hollywood habit of glimpsing truth only long enough to falsify it. Montalban's anxieties are magically dispelled by a happy ending as familiar as Boxing Promoter Lionel Barrymore 's grumpiness. Though Right Cross's ring scenes are pretty well staged, it is a boxing picture with too much yatata and not enough sock...
...reduction was in tigers or districts. A lion across the aisle glares from his glass cage. "In the wild state lions usually live up to their reputation of daring and ferocity. They prey upon large animals, especially zebras and antelopes, and in occasional instances have acquired the man-eating habit...