Word: habited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Centro, Calif., charged with assault with a deadly weapon for hitting Joe Gilbert over the head with a beer mug "because he was mumbling in his beer," Virgil Slimp, 26, had the charge reduced to simple assault when he was able to prove that Gilbert made a habit of mumbling in his beer...
...Quaint Habit. Spike made Navy boxing his life. He taught all his midshipmen the same jabbing, skipaway style that saved Gene Tunney after Jack Dempsey flattened him for the famed long count in 1927. And he was a bug on conditioning. All Webb teams did road work before reveille; all Webb boxers developed washboard bellies. They needed them. Coach Webb had a quaint habit of slamming his fist into any abdomen within range, by way of greeting...
...Leopardi home was in the Adriatic town of Recanati, where today plaques mark the dwellings of men and women whose only fame is that they figure in Leopardi's poems. The young boy soon developed the habit of observing the life of the old town from upper windows (he scarcely ever left the house) and jotting down his observations in a notebook. At 10, he was turned loose in his father's library and spent the next seven years buried in books-"the happiest time that he had ever known...
...Grounds. Mrs. Goosby treats Willie a little like a son, occasionally gives him a motherly talk "about taking care of himself." "Not that he needs it often," says Mrs. Goosby. "Willie's a good boy. About all I have to lecture him on besides eating properly is his habit of reading comic books. That boy spends hours, I swear, with those comics...
Enterprise or Ideas. "Philanthropy is an American habit," he wrote, "and the modern foundation is an American invention." Its aims: "To make human beings healthier, happier, wiser, more conscious of the rich possibilities of human existence and more capable of realizing them . . ." It is true that a foundation must exercise careful judgment in selecting the studies and scholars it wishes to support. But having done so, it must treat the doctrine of the free enterprise of ideas as inviolate. In its 43 years, Dollard continued, the Carnegie Corporation (which has spent $253 million to improve public libraries, educational standards...