Word: habited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact that the British national team had beaten the U.S. in international competition, Williams studied movies of the teams in action. The Americans were faster, but they tended to slow down for the tricky pass, while the British made the transfer at full speed. The Americans also had a habit of waiting, hand low, palm down, trying to snatch the baton from their teammates. The British on the other hand, reached back, hand high, thumb up-and the incoming runner simply dropped the baton into his teammate's open palm...
...Trix" shares his spontaneous enjoyment of life. Once, when christening a new ship, she drenched the assembled dignitaries with champagne, and her laughter at the sight was heard throughout the country on TV. Her only apparent major problem is getting married. The government would dearly like to break the habit of finding royal consorts among the Protestant German aristocracy. But suitable Protestant princes, German or otherwise, are hard to find nowadays. The remaining daughter, pretty, 21-year-old Princess Margriet, shares her mother's stoutness, and her hairdos have a lamentable tendency to come down about her ears...
...rate of economic change increases, fertility control becomes the habit of the entire population rather just of the upper ranks of society, he said...
Pinter makes arresting drama out of platitudes. His characters are listless nobodies who prattle witlessly about the weather, the neighbors, about eating and sleeping. Cooped up in wretched little rooms, they fondle material possessions and mull over memories like savages, so drugged by habit that paltry incidents pass for news. They soak up mundane sensory experience through a screen of simple-minded, petulant prejudices...
...They swam in the Volga, hunted mushrooms in the birch woods, went ice skating and sleighing during the long winters. In the evenings, they bent over chessboards, sang around the piano, or played games invented by Vladimir with rules that he changed according to his whim. It was a habit he never lost...