Word: habiting
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Founding various support policies and programs--including a habit of leaving her porch light on to invite students to visit and talk with her late at night--Bunting-Smith gained the appreciation of hundreds of Radcliffe undergraduates...
Last season was the first time in the 22-year history of the program that the Crimson failed to reach the .500 mark, but this year's season-ending 10-9 win over Cornell assured that, at least for this season, Harvard would not make a habit...
...wasn't the way the season was supposed to close out. At the very least, Harvard expected to have its postseason fate decided on the court against William & Mary, not Virginia Tech. Regardless of how the end came about, the Crimson continued what is fast becoming habit, hitting a wall at the regional tournament and failing to advance into the Big Dance...
...reputation for covertness, Nixon's real problem was his inability to conceal the darkly busy workings of his mind--the wheels turning, the eyes darting. You could almost hear him talking--a subliminal tape--even if the words were not audible. Nixon also had the alarming habit of talking about himself in the third person, which is an inverted variation on talking to oneself. In talking to oneself, one invents an interlocutor; Nixon, speaking of himself in the third person, in effect erased an interlocutor--himself! Consider another variation: Joan of Arc. It was not so much that she talked...
...never seen an episode of Seinfeld. I'm one of that tiny percentile of Americans who grew up not allowed to watch television, so I never developed the habit. I'm sure there are lots of fascinating things on television, but I've lived my life living in my environment...