Word: habits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wholly independent in 1956. Among the sophisticated Arabs of Khartoum, the balloting went off without a hitch. But in the western deserts, election officials in jouncing jeeps had to chase down camel-riding nomads to collect their ballots. In the Nuba region, voter identification was complicated by the local habit of naming all eldest sons Cuckoo. Several precincts in the eastern mountains reported that voters were showing up with entirely different names from those under which they registered, because the local practice is always to change names after the annual religious wrestling matches...
...interpreter. Nietzsche wrote many affectionate letters to his mother; Elisabeth dropped ink blots on the word "Mother" and published the letters as if addressed to herself. Schlechta also spotted other frauds with the help of a pack of notebooks that Elisabeth had hidden under attic eaves (Nietzsche had a habit of drafting letters to friends in his notebooks before sending them). The only copies extant of Nietzsche letters saying, "You are the only person I trust absolutely," and "You are such a good friend and helper," were in Elisabeth's own hand; on these she had written that...
Mother Mary decided early that the nun's habit she had been wearing all her life would set up too much of a barrier between herself and the girls, got special permission from the Vatican to wear secular clothes. Many of her simple, tweedy outfits are homemade, and she wears no lipstick or jewelry, even on her fund-raising expeditions into Roman society. But some of the shocked villagers of Borgata Ottavia imaginatively endow her with mink coats and painted fingernails. "What will she make of those girls?" asked one indignant woman of the neighborhood last week. "Not good...
...before in his career, Johnnie underwent surgery to clear up the deafness he developed in his teens. In January, on the second try, surgery worked, restored much of the hearing in his left ear. In the old hearing-aid days, Johnnie was unsure of rhythm and pitch, developed a habit of sliding into his notes. With his hearing restored, he promptly became panicky. "That first night," he says, "I was a nervous wreck. After my first show I rushed backstage and said to the other guys: 'O.K., now tell me I wasn't singing flat.' They said...
...track meets bring some of the best milers in the world to the tight-banked boards of Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, it is quite a trick just to find running room. Spikes slice close to bare shanks in the opening sprint for the pole; elbows have a habit of splaying wide when the pack gangs up on a turn. And when the pack contains men like Hungary's crack Istvan Rozsavolgyi, holder of three world records for outdoor middle-distance running, the problem is even more complicated. For while Ron runs to win and only as fast...