Word: habiting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...been a bad year for video-game addicts who resolved to kick the habit. All of a sudden, their drug of choice became more engrossing than ever. Not only was 1999 the watershed year in which sales of games overtook box-office receipts for the first time, but the quality of those games improved exponentially, leading some to believe that the game industry is entering a Golden Age roughly equivalent to Hollywood's in the 1940s...
...seems that the habit of the American media and government of projecting stereotypes against Arab and Muslim Americans will never end. With the recent crash of the EgyptAir Flight 990, we have once again witnessed just how out-of-hand these implications...
...even think about trying to sneak in a non-Harvard guest while she's on duty. She is tougher than Annenberg. "I always look at the pictures," Vicky said, "It's a habit. The IDs are not transferable. A couple of years ago, someone lost an ID and stole from the rooms, you know?" The most common way students try to enter illicitly, Vicky said, is through the side door from the small dining room. She glances over to this door, as she checks each ID photo. "Just the other day, some girl gave me an ID card that...
...mother do it [and] thought maybe someday [he] could be good too." Not a regular blow drier, Steciuk saves in-depth styling for Friday nights, when he has more time. Eddie Huang `03, on the other hand, blow-dries every day. Vanity? Dedication? None of these, claims Eddie--just habit. Huang blow-dries every night after showering to avoid those embarrassing cowlicks that plague so many. So the next time you're walking down the street or sitting next to some suave young man in lecture and happen to notice that he has great hair, don't be fooled...
...heed the biblical injunction to be fruitful and multiply. It just kind of happened. She was raised a Roman Catholic, but gave little thought to the Good Book when she had her first child at 17. Before long, though, she joined a gang and had fallen into the habit of having babies. She has eight kids and another due any day. "I didn't know a lot about birth control," Campos says. She has since studied her options and decided on a tubal ligation: a common procedure, usually performed after delivery, that permanently prevents pregnancy. "It has taken me since...