Word: habited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Annapolis was tougher for Burke than for most. "I didn't have enough background," he explains. "I nearly bilged out the first year. I had to work like hell, and I got in the habit of it." The habit has never been broken: Burke works from 12 to 14 hours for at least six, and often seven, days a week, has had only one 30-day leave since he left Annapolis 33 years...
...ever since. At last, one day Father Borelli felt sure enough of success to walk among the scugnizzi in his clerical robes. No one recognized him until he produced a snapshot of himself dressed as a scugnizzo. First they gaped in astonishment, then they crowded in to touch his habit and kiss his hand...
...invoking the name of Arnold Gesell, the boy was indulging in a practice that has become something of a national habit...
...fingers." As for the much touted "valuable social experience" a pupil gets in school, "the values which are inculcated turn out to be largely these: a firm conviction that one can get by without working; an idea that quality of workmanship is of slight importance; a confirmed habit of disregarding instructions: a systematically cultivated indolence...
...varsity tennis team continued its shutout habit Saturday afternoon on the Soldiers Field courts as it romped to an easy 9-0 win over Boston University. The result had been expected, and the lopsided score indicates very little about the real ability of the Crimson squad...