Word: habited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Smith was one man who hated noise. Whenever he moved about his new "luxury" apartment in Baling, London, his neighbor's dogs barked. No man (at that time) to create an incident, Bachelor Smith took to mincing about his apartment on tiptoes. After six years of tiptoeing, the habit had become so natural that he was surprised, and impressed, by the routine noises made by some friends to whom he once sublet his apartment. Said Smith, a robust mechanical engineer: "I decided that my timorous manner was unnecessary. I decided to live a more normal life...
...University may take pride in its lack of titled pre-medical concentrators, or its habit of calling engineering students "applied science" concentrators. But this nebulous naming of fields of concentration, combined with a reluctance to give information about them, leaves Freshmen somewhat befuddled about their future courses of study...
...Government. At first, the black man's habit of deferring to the white impeded business: instead of making up their own minds, the black ministers looked to the governor for decisions. But Arden-Clarke soon put a stop to that. "That's for you chaps to decide," he told Nkrumah. "After all, you are the government...
Tightwad. In Sacramento, cops who questioned Donald Garrett for refusing to pay for the drink he had ordered at a tavern, found $2,500 in his pocket, listened to his explanation: "I'm not in the habit of spending much money on myself...
...language of the Congressional Record (he called Senators "you men" not "the distinguished Senators"). He was inclined to be chatty, but at least part of that was the result of the Senators' tendency to ask him questions which he had already answered. Unaccustomed to the senatorial habit of saying everything three times, he thought they wanted to hear something he hadn't said before...