Word: habited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from studying seismograph records of the U.S.'s great H-bomb tests in the Pacific in 1954. The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission gave the seismologists no help at all, but Dr. Bullen figured out the exact times of all four blasts. Apparently the AEC is a creature of habit: it exploded all its H-bombs at an exact multiple of five minutes after 6 p.m. Greenwich mean time. According to Bullen's figuring, Test Bravo (which killed the Japanese fisherman with radioactive fallout) exploded at 45 minutes, zero seconds past...
...First Game belonged to a squat pro named Lawrence Peter Berra. All season Catcher Yogi has been floundering through a batting slump, never getting his average up much above his weight (192 Ibs.). But when he does hit, he still has his Yankee habit of making his hits count. His three-run homer in the eighth inning broke up the game, and the Yankees coasted home...
Next day the Braves lost a close one, 3-2. But in the rubber game they ran through eight Dodger pitchers and collected 13 hits (including four home runs) to win another for Burdette, 13-7-proof positive that they have finally buried their fainthearted, four-year habit of folding in the stretch...
These days she seldom succumbs to her old habit of charging the net behind weak, mediocre shots; no longer does she take the offensive and then temporize, pat back her volleys instead of smashing for the kill. Her booming serve gives her the basis of a sound, big game, and no woman playing today has the ground strokes to pass her. "She plays smarter all the time," says her close friend, former Champion Sarah Palfrey Fabyan Cooke Danzig. "She makes fewer mistakes, and she has the natural ability to be still greater than she is." Darlene Hard, who went...
...Commander Dwight Towers, who has brought his atom-powered submarine safely to port in Melbourne, the death in the north has no meaning. He still dreams of returning from duty to his wife and children in Mystic. Conn. A young Australian couple, Peter and Mary Holmes, use habit as an escape from the horror to come; they go on as they always have-sailing, giving parties, worrying when their small daughter has a sore throat or fever. Moira Davidson at first seems to drink too much, but a Platonic relationship with Commander Towers soon settles her into the resigned...