Word: habited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Desaulniers also said Caldwell's slow and methodical manner and his habit of taking long breaks between serves got "on my nerves. I just couldn't keep my concentration up the whole time...
Americans have a friskily self-destructive habit of turning even their best impulses into junk and kitsch; a Beverly Hills hair salon lately had eight models in tank tops and khaki trousers parading around the shop carrying flags and sporting new "military" hair styles. The entrepreneur turns militarism into a profitable fad. Love of country, by such associations, comes to seem vaguely sick and stupid...
Greacen said the restaurant will sell fruit juices and soft drinks and will be "pretty careful about carding people." He said 33 Dunster Street plans a large advertising campaign for the first happy hour, hoping a large turnout will establish a habit among students. "We're not trying to put the Student Assembly out," Greacen added. "All we're asking from them is a little time and effort...
...business. "Prodigality is the spirit of the era," Social Critic Vance Packard declared in The Waste Makers 20 years ago. There has been no reason since to change that judgment. "Waste not, want not" has persisted only as a saying, and most people have fallen out of the habit of taking it personally...
...good news is that thanks to the bad news of the energy crisis and sky-high prices, the prevalent habit of mindless waste may be in the early stages of a reversal. At least some Americans are beginning to pay attention to small savings that were regarded as inconsequential only yesterday. A new scrimpy spirit is most noticeable in direct efforts to conserve gas and other fuels, but it is also emerging in the other routine logistics of daily living...