Word: habited
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Many of us may have just awakened to the stunning extent of priestly pedophilia since January, when the Boston Globe exposed the predations of John Geoghan and the habit the diocese had of systematically concealing them. But the U.S. church has known all about it--how deep sexual misconduct ran, how widespread, how frequent--at least since the first big abuse scandal broke at a Louisiana trial in 1985, when the Rev. Gilbert Gauthe was sentenced to 20 years for molesting dozens of children, who were awarded a combined $18 million in damages...
Lowering the voting age would get young people in the habit of voting even before they leave the city, Davis said, and a 17-year-old franchise could help solve larger problems of low turnout and general voter apathy...
...It’s kind of the like the opposite of smoking,” she said. “[Voting] is a habit we want them to get into...
...always made do with a simple headscarf in deference to Islamic modesty, as a kid she had played dress ups in her mother's burka "so it was not difficult for me to get used to it again." The law stuck and wearing a burka became an uncomfortable habit: "in the summer you sweated in there, and in the winter you froze. It was a kind of punishment...
...It’s kind of the like the opposite of smoking,” she said. “[Voting] is a habit we want them to get into...