Word: habited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That afternoon North Carolina's Democratic Senator Samuel Ervin, another member of the censure committee, arose to speak. He recalled that McCarthy had accused him of bias and, as usual, had quoted out of context from newspaper clippings to prove the charge. This habit of Joe's reminded Ervin of the North Carolina preacher who about 75 years ago deplored the local women's custom of wearing their hair in topknots. One Sunday he preached a sermon on the text: "Top (K)Not Come Down." At the end an irate woman-with a topknot-protested that...
...book as a good loser.' It's the kinda feeling you got to have to be a winner. It's kinda like the New York Yankees. Those guys win about 30% of their games because they got those pinstripe suits on. It's habit-forming, that winning or losing. The Lions have fallen into good habits...
Soul of a Sophomore. This week in Green Bay, the Lions again tested their habit, and Layne, as usual, made all the difference. Passing for two touchdowns, and running for a third, he beat the Packers 21-17. With only four games left to go (including a Thanksgiving-day rematch with the Packers), the Lions need only one more victory to sew up their third straight Western Conference championship...
...East-West power struggle. Rather than accept Knowland's plea to snap diplomatic lines with Moscow, the free world should seek reasonable accommodations. The West should make every attempt to neutralize future struggles by political and economic adjustment. Despite Knowland's fears, total war is not inevitable. Through the habit of searching for agreement, the possibility of ultimate settlement becomes increasingly feasible. By avoiding world conflict, the Western allies need not succumb to "nibbling aggression." For co-existence, clearly seen, is a guarded and armed accommodation with the Soviet Union...
Fleeing to London to study art, she came back with an incomprehensible bad habit-smoking cigarettes. Trailing ; thin plume of smoke, Emily escaped again, this time to Paris. In Paris she felt "like a pine tree in a pot," but learned to paint in what she called "the despised, adorable, joyous, modern...