Word: habited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nicotine cigarettes are "luring" young women into the smoking habit, according to a Harvard University researcher who calls the tobacco products the "pharmacologic equivalent of a training...
Edwards said that leftist opposition parties decided to protest the constitution by voting no rather than abstaining even though "voting gave legitimacy to the plebescite." The opposition parties felt that this would be more effective because refusing to vote is illegal in Chile and because voting is a "habit of the Chilean people," he added...
...Angeles, Carter put the matter bluntly: The coming election, he said, "will determine whether we have peace or war." In a local television interview the next morning, Carter got down to specifics: "To call for the use of military forces in a very dangerous situation has been a repeated habit of [Reagan's] as a Governor and as a candidate for President. What he would do in the Oval Office I hope will never be observed...
...just released sequel, The Court Years: 1939-1975, suggests a judicially revealing treatise. But Douglas spends more time twitting colleagues than talking about the workings of the court. A favorite target is longtime ideological foe Felix Frankfurter. Douglas says that Justice Frankfurter, brilliant, gregarious, but insecure, had the arrogant habit of dropping messages at the feet of court pages-as if physical contact with the unanointed would desecrate the sanctity of the conference room. Douglas tells of a near fistfight between Frankfurter and Chief Justice Fred Vinson in the court's conference room. He notes that Justice Thurgood Marshall...
...sententious rehash of every Walker Percy hero of the past (in fact, a direct borrowing from The Last Gentleman), Allison is a new creation, and she provides what little direction there is to The Second Coming's rambling. But too often Percy seems to be writing out of habit, letting the alienation and existential ideology flow lazily down the same channels cut by his earlier novels. Some of his metaphors are meaningless, form without substance...