Word: habited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fibbing: "It is not my habit to employ duplicity or artifice. But I want to make it clear that I am not Billy Budd. Billy Budd was a schmuck...
Photo's parents are probably resigned by now to her penchant for decorating her bedroom with baseball pictures. "It's my wall of fame," she says, and her habit of baking cakes for the Cardinal squad. "There was one year I only missed keeping score three times," she says. "If I had to go to bed I would write the scores on old sheets...
...student of a play who treats it as a piece of literature becomes accustomed to staging ideal performances in his mind's eye; his imagination becomes his private stage, and his intellect the all-powerful and all-knowing director. This is everyone's reading habit, of course, but for the scholar it can become an obsession that inhibits his capacity to follow someone else's approach on the live stage. He is always comparing what is before him to what his imagination remembers, and no matter what is before him, it falls short. At the most ludicrous, he becomes...
...regular exercise, which tones the body and increases the efficiency of the heart and lungs. The case for exercise was made persuasively by a 20-year study of 17,000 Harvard alumni, age 35 to 74, by Stanford Epidemiologist Ralph Paffenbarger. He found that men who made a lifetime habit of regular exercise (say, strenuous swimming or jogging three times a week) had about half as many heart attacks as those who were sedentary. Even smokers, overweight men and those with high blood pressure or family histories of heart disease benefited from exercise. Despite the Harvard study, however, the value...
...stable condition; his father worries him more. At age 72, Dad has sunk into a lethargy that borders on inertia. Tremont sets him some routine household chores, then coaxes him into the outside world, and the old man begins to show sparks of vitality: "You get in the habit of working and then forget how to have fun." After a minor operation, however, Dad slides into senility. Tremont brings him home from the hospital and tries caring for an incontinent adult incapable of feeding himself. The effort is heroic but doomed. Dad is sent to a nursing home, presumably...