Word: habited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republic of Korea, has been working for Korean freedom ever since 1894. His single-minded struggle has led the dapper, 75-year-old Rhee into conflict with Korean kings, Japanese tyrants and Soviet agents. Years of imprisonment (1897-1904) in an unheated jail left him with the habit of blowing on his fingers when he is excited. Thirty-three years of exile (1912 to 1945), during which he vainly tried to interest the great powers in Korean independence, have long since given him the nagging tone of a neglected conscience...
...sticky, glass-headed little men of Mars were watching Earth with their big, blue, magnifying eyes last week, they must have decided that the nation was either being overrun by man-eating weevils, or that something else-the marijuana habit, the cumulative horrors of television, or a vast atomic catastrophe-had addled the nerve centers of the masses. Armies of people were fleeing the country, and the rest of the populace seemed to be scurrying away from their homes like disturbed ants...
This largest of Harvard classes will carry away some strangely assorted memories of the College. The chow (or book) line became for many an ogre so clear-cut that they can no longer stand in line for anything. Losing to Yale grew to be another unhappy habit. These are not, of course, the sort of memories one should carry away--one should remember the thud of shoe against pigskin, or the setting sun casting its last golden rays across the Charles. But they are the peculiar matters that stick in the front of the mind...
...used to be my habit to go to Calvary Church, New York City, at noon, to pray for guidance to find Christian work, as I felt I had to do something for God. This I had done for some months, when it was as though someone said to me: 'Why don't you stop this praying and go and do something?' So I rose from my knees and went back to my employer [Lord & Taylor], giving my notice that I was leaving, and I walked out into the streets of New York with absolutely not a dollar...
Coming from anyone else, such a prophecy might well have made the institute's hardheaded members blow a fuse in surprise. But as president of the $250 million Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co., bustling, ruddy-faced Elmer Lindseth, 48, has made a habit of winning big bets on an expanding economy...