Word: habited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sitcom about a single lawyer (Geena Davis) trying to make it on her own in San Francisco. The show is being touted as 1985's answer to the Mary Tyler Moore Show, a boast that can most charitably be described as optimistic. Davis, a tall brunet with an annoying habit of talking into her chest, has little of Mary's tough-but- vulnerable charm, and the gag lines would have embarrassed the crowd at WJM- TV. (A friend, chiding Sara for taking low-paying cases, wonders if she has something against making money: "Did something happen when you were...
...economic power as well as one of the few advisers to meet privately with the President on a regular basis. In his new job as White House chief of staff, these sessions will turn into daily events, as no doubt will the trading of salty stories, yet another common habit...
...work must be seen less as an individual effort than as a late and rather dull development in a very long tradition of American thought. Lasch belongs to that school of intellectuals which insists on understanding life from a theoretical point of view. This school is in the habit of frequently changing its textbooks; but the form of its message (as opposed to the matter) remains constant. Whether one is religious, Marxist, or Freudian (to take these texts in historical, perhaps hysterical order), one is in possession of the truth: the welfare of the rest of the country, whether...
...move to extradite 78 Colombian dealers to face charges in the U.S., unnamed drug barons three weeks ago threatened to kill five Americans for every Colombian extradited. Colombian police believe that the prime target of last week's attack was U.S. Ambassador Lewis Tambs, who is in the habit of leaving the embassy each day at about the time the bomb exploded. Six months earlier, a car laden with explosives blew up prematurely outside his official residence...
WHCN was run separately from The Crimson by 1942, when it paid back the paper's investment and became independent as WHRV, the Harvard Radio Voice, known as "The Listening Habit of America's First University," according to David R. Elliott '64, the station's unofficial archivist...