Word: habited
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...defense—is sophomore Esmeralda Negron, the team’s leading scorer for each of the past two seasons. Negron is well-remembered as the player who delivered the game-winning header against Harvard in overtime last season. Unfortunately for the Crimson, big goals have become a habit for Negron since then. She has five game-winning goals and two more overtime winners this season...
Like ours was, their recitation is almost involuntary, rendered meaningless through habit. I try to think now about what it means, but I can’t remember the words unless I say it out loud...
...brush opposite the school suggested that the sniper had lain in wait for his victim. Police also found a tarot "death" card with the message "Mister Policeman, I am God." The card, which may turn out to be a prank by someone familiar with the Vietnam War habit of leaving calling cards on the bodies of Viet Cong, was sent to the feds to be analyzed for fingerprints and DNA. The card, it would later be reported, also contained a request not to tell the media about its existence. "There is often an indignation on the part of serial killers...
...painting it onto the fingers and hands. The wax was then peeled off and treated with chemicals that react to gunpowder traces. If the chemicals turned up positive, you had your shooter--unless, of course, the chemicals were reacting with urine, bleach or fertilizer, which had a nasty habit of yielding identical results...
...billion pension fund (up from $56 billion when he took charge in 1993), he has more responsibility for investing pension money than anyone else in the country--and lately that is what has got him into trouble. The New York Post revealed late last month that McCall had a habit ofwriting letters on official stationery to top executives that mentioned how many shares of their company stock he held in the state pension fund--and by the way, could they help get a relative a job? In the case of Verizon in 1997, it was for his daughter Marci...