Word: habited
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Senior quarterback John McGeehan leads the most balanced attack the Crimson has seen in a while. He runs and throws with the skill of a top level signal caller and directs an attack that has made a habit of jumping out to big leads and then holding on for impressive victories...
...analogy, but not for a lack of effort. "This steamroller, this wave--I'm running out of metaphors!" But to be fair to Brokaw, how else could one describe the evening's outcome? (Those readers who suggested "this victory" are on the right track.) Brokaw also fell into the habit of asking commentator John Chancellor for his "immediate thoughts" on this or that. After NBC projected Reagan the winner, Chancellor offered this immediate thought: "Just that there's a hunger in America for a president who serves eight years." On at least one occasion, Brokaw harkened back to former...
Alas, Uncle Sam next year will be sticking to his habit of giving with one hand but taking with the other. Social Security contributions, as those taxes are euphemistically called, will go up in 1985 under separate legislation passed in 1983. The maximum Social Security bite from paychecks will be increased $259.20, to $2,791.80. For most Americans that will more than wipe out any gain from income tax indexing...
...similar affliction, a less delightful strain of it, had plagued Morris. When he lost control of either himself or the ball, his habit had been to look around for an umpire or some other handy receptacle of blame. Early in the season, he was given to demonstrating on the mound against Tiger teammates who made errors, until Catcher Lance Parrish came up the hill to visit him once. "Nobody wants to play behind you when you're acting like this," Parrish told him, and Morris grew in grace from that moment on. They support each other...
...would wind up doping little more than it absolutely could not avoid. In an era when monster deficits and the politically unpopular steps that might reduce them seem about equally intolerable to many legislators, Congress's budget-making process has broken down completely. As has become its deplorable habit, the legislature came to the end of a fiscal year with the great majority of appropriations bills-nine of 13 in this case-unpassed. Once again, Congress had to bundle money for defense expenditures, most social spending and even some routine housekeeping chores into a gargantuan continuing resolution...