Word: habited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...humble village priest, by night "the Lord Romuald," lover of Clarimonde, living in an Italian palace amid such pomp and splendor that "I do not believe that since Satan fell from heaven, any creature was ever prouder or more insolent." Clarimonde, however, has the old ghost-story habit of sucking the blood from her lover's arm so as to keep herself "alive." This allows the distressed hero to come right out with an old-fashioned moral for the clergy: "Never gaze upon a woman, and walk abroad only with eyes fixed upon the ground; for . . . the error...
Etymological quibbling, such as the Rev. Mr. Wolfe seems addicted to, is a dangerous and unlovely habit. Indiscriminately indulged in, it can lead us away from the truth as effectively as the subtlest sophistry. One cannot always tell the flowers by the roots . . . Take the word Presbyterian itself (from Greek presbyteros, comparative of presbys, old). It would seem to mean "of or pertaining to the elders." Thus any old people's home, of whatever religion, becomes by definition a presbyterian (though not, Mr. Wolfe, a Presbyterian) establishment; and the Elders of Zion have, by the same token, as good...
John Forsythe, the writer of a television program called Crime of the Week, falls into the habit of fooling around with a blonde (Kathleen Hughes) instead of going dutifully home in the late afternoon. When he tries to break the habit, the blonde breaks the bad news: she wants $2,500 or she will tell his wife. The night of the payoff the blonde has a run-in with two other men-her husband (John Verros) and the head researcher of the writer's program (Edward G. Robinson), another of the many beaux to her string. Early next morning...
...This habit of recasting physics in new ways, the emblem of an insatiable intellect, has led him into the depths of his science at almost breakneck speed. When he was just starting high school in his native New York, he read unceasingly in physics. "I began to read systematically through the branch libraries uptown, gradually working my way downtown to the Public Library on 42nd Street." By the time Schwinger had graduated from high school, he had read thoroughly in atomic physics and quantum mechanics. His training in mathematics had been to read all that the Encyclopedia Britannica offered...
...While visiting the U.S. in 1946," he wrote, "I subscribed to TIME and have been reading it ever since, to keep up with international events and to get to know the Americans." In Tokyo, Masao Saneyoshi, head of five oil and construction companies,described his TIME-reading habit another way: "To be the first to know the latest, to know world affairs at a glance...