Word: habited
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...Food is my favorite thing in the world. Eating is my favorite pastime,” said Kelly L. Lee ’07, who had been on hunger strike for the entire nine days. “You have a habit of eating, so it was physically very draining...
...these cases the symbol is the sin: Congressman Mark Foley was the Capitol Crusader against pedophilia before his own leering e-mails surfaced; virtuecrat Bill Bennett's gambling habit started with church bingo; Al Gore just got permission to install solar panels on his house, which has been reported to use 20 times the energy of an average-size home...
...confusion stems in part from Iraqi government's well-deserved reputation for jumping to conclusions: it has a habit of hastily announcing the death of al-Qaeda leaders and then retracting its claims. It doesn't help that al-Qaeda is an incredibly secretive organization, with a fluid command structure that makes it almost impossible to know who's really in charge...
...hours, but it can be difficult to watch when it tries to strike a serious note. A film festival audience favorite, the movie was originally titled “Shut Up and Sing” in reference to the characters’ annoying habit of yelling “shut up!” at the drop of a hat. Maybe some people who graduated from college in the early ’90s really do scream at each other for fun, but the yelling happens to grate on my nerves. The new title certainly isn’t much...
...negroes" from Angola. Our original sin was not very original--Spain and Portugal had already brought 200,000 African slaves to the Americas--and the colony was slow to exploit the practice. Slaves did not outnumber indentured servants in Virginia until the 1670s. Once acquired, however, the habit of bondage would prove addicting--economic and social nicotine...