Word: habited
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...church has drawn the ire of many conservative Catholic intellectuals (see box). "Some of the bishops are extremely cavalier," says Church Historian James Hitchcock of St. Louis University. "They seem to say there is no real problem with the Soviets. And some of them have fallen into the habit of saying that a nuclear holocaust would be the greatest of all evils. Yet in religious terms, physical destruction, no matter how horrible, can never be the worst evil. It makes me shiver when it is implied that we should allow ourselves if necessary to be conquered." Others argue that...
...fours before standing, so the upright posture is the most natural." Both Shinn and Birk are following in the tradition of Edward Allen Pierce, a Merrill Lynch founder who worked standing up until he was 90. Now several of Shinn's colleagues at First Boston have acquired the habit...
COLANTUONO PLAYS DOWN his impact on the council. During his campaign for the chairmanship, he promised to serve the council, and not dictate a personal agenda. While he certainly has not betrayed that promise, he is influencing the council with a model expediency which will hopefully be habit-forming. Colantuono still says he will "follow the direction of the council." But it has become clear that after considerable time spent in circuitous meetings within Harvard's previous student government structure, he plans to keep firm reins on the group during his one-semester term...
Lautenberg has also hinted at another blotch in the adoring Lacey Davenport portrait eccentricity and age Himself a careful, some times dull speaker, Lautenberg last month came right out and called his opponent an "eccentric" for her habit of rambling aimlessly during debates and reducing discussions to anecdotal comparisons. His wording was strong, but his point valid. In addition, many worry that Fenwick would as best be able to serve one full term if elected, while Lautenberg 58, clearly could represent the state for longer than that...
...leprechaun with the deadpan delivery has regaled audiences with the details of his middle-class conformity. His collected TV essays, the bestselling A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney, disclosed his suspicions about designer underwear, his shock that no Mrs. Smith exists at Mrs. Smith's Pies, and his habit of saving warranties for appliances long since discarded. What accounts for the popularity of such ordinary views? Rooney thinks it is his compliance: "Rebels are a dime a dozen," he writes...