Word: habited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since becoming the Rangers' coach in the middle of last season, Lynn Patrick has been trying frantically to correct an ingrained Ranger habit: they score too few goals. He still has the lowest-scoring club in hockey (2.2 goals a game this year). But after getting off to a miserable start, Patrick's scoreless wonders have lifted eyebrows all around the National Hockey League by losing only three games in their last 15. By last week, thanks to victories over Detroit and Montreal, they were in second place...
...poor "shooting, a lacklustre defense, and the fact that several football men, notably George Sella, have not yet made a successful transition from turf to floor. Coach Cappy Capon has a short team--Bernia Adams at 6-4 is about his only tall man--which is in the habit of fouling out early, leaving Capon without five capably players...
Modern psychologists and pedagogues would call Winston Churchill's childhood far from ideal. His early picture of his mother: "In a riding habit, fitting like a skin and often beautifully spotted with mud . . . she shone for me like the Evening Star. I loved her dearly-but at a distance." Even more remote was his father, Lord Randolph Churchill, brilliant and erratic Chancellor of the Exchequer (1886), who died when Winston was 20. Lord Randolph thought that Winston was not bright enough to study law; one day after watching the boy play with his host of 1,500 toy soldiers...