Word: habited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think it's a glaring weakness in someone's personality if they let food affect them so much," he continues. "I look upon the whole habit as a vice that's just as bad as heroin addiction...
Sherry, a Harvard junior, had a similar problem when she talked to her parents about her older sister's habit of gorging and purging in secret. "They got really angry with me and told me to mind my own business," she remembers. "They totally shut their eyes to the situation and didn't deal with it. I suppose it's because if they did admit there was a problem it would be a poor reflection on them as parents...
...once a week have been particularly successful in curing gorge-purge behavior. She notes that within seven months of group sessions, women who had been vomiting for five to seven years respectively had resumed eating normally, and that similar sufferers of 11 and 13 years have drastically curtailed their habit. Carni emphasizes, however, that group sessions are not for everyone. The slow, step-by-step recovery can be painful and difficult, bringing problems to the surface which for years have been submerged under an obsession with food...
...going to make a habit of setting records," the senior shot putter said...
...Germans have a deep national habit of earnest exaggeration. The Japanese, of course, practice a style of negative exageration-self-abnegation so elaborate as to be a kind of overstatement. On Aug. 15, 1945, Emperor Hirohito observed in the imperial announcement of Japan's surrender: "The war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage." The British exaggerate in the same direction, indulging in what grammarians call meiosis-understatement. It was an American (born in Wales), however, Henry Stanley, who produced the wonderfully meiotic: "Dr. Livingstone, I presume...