Word: habited
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...good for us, all this time spent in virtual worlds? Or is it as pernicious as television, sucking us ever further from reality? The AOL survey suggests we're in denial about the extent of our habit. One in 10 gamers claims to be addicted; 1 in 4 admits to losing a night of sleep to play games; and another quarter has been engrossed enough to skip meals. Club Pogo and Sims players average 18 and 20 hours a week on their games. Like a Vegas casino, this is a world in which the sun never rises or sets...
...November 1786, with only 50 pounds, a wool cloak, two dogs, a hatchet, and a peace pipe, Ledyard walked through northern Sweden and Finland to reach St. Petersburg, Russia. As he walked, he got in the habit of talking to himself in French: “I believe that wolves, rocks, woods & snow understand it, for I have addressed them in it & they have all been very complaisant to me,” he wrote to Jefferson...
Nixon, like Johnson, had a habit for making those around him uncomfortable. While drinking cocktails with the owners of the Los Angeles Times in 1967, Nixon blurted: “I probably shouldn’t tell this…But…Why did the farmer keep a bucket of shit in his living room...
Earlier, Harvard made a habit of clawing back from multiple-goal deficits like the one it faced in the third quarter...
...prerequisites: a kid who has left the nest for college, 25 years at the same company, hot flashes and an outdated hairstyle. The problem is, I can't quite squeeze it in. I've got this 11-year-old daughter who, while quite tolerant of my yoga habit, just might go off the rails if I indulge my yen for a six-month retreat at an ashram in Kerala. Then there's the college-tuition bill. Do you think Skidmore would cook up an emergency scholarship for my son if my contribution to the family income suddenly dropped...