Word: habited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Once again it was time for a ten-best-dressed-men list, compiled by a group of custom tailors called the Fashion Foundation of America. The F.F.A. has a suspicious habit of cutting choices to fit names in the news; Jimmy Carter and Anwar Sadat shared top honors, although Co-Peacemaker Menachem Begin was considered too rumpled. This year's 40th annual roll showed a unique alteration: title of the world's best dressed man was awarded to Pope John Paul II, who is into cassocks, capes and red pontifical hats and shoes, rather than business suits...
Last week at the Shaba Game Reserve in central Kenya, as dusk fell on her camp, Joy Adamson indulged herself in her customary early evening habit: she set off, alone, on a stroll away from the camp. This time she did not return to hear the nightly news, as she always did. A search party was formed. Soon it found her lifeless body about 100 yards from the camp on a nearby trail. She had been badly mauled across the chest and an arm "by great claws," a friend reported, "no doubt a lion...
...hearings, experts said that Valium and other so-called minor tranquilizers may produce bad side effects. They may cause confusion and temporary memory loss, especially among people over 60. Habitual users risk what Kennedy called a "nightmare of dependence," or outright addiction. Roche officials concede that Valium can be habit-forming, but insist that most people who claim to be hooked on it have actually been addicted to alcohol or other drugs. They also say that U.S. doctors prescribe tranquilizers too casually; though Western Europe's population is greater than the U.S.'s, American physicians prescribe Valium twice...