Word: accustom
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...Paris taxi drivers, mostly as old and decrepit as their vehicles, struck when threatened with physical examinations that would ground the wheeziest and most shortsighted; and 3) the stomach-butchers refused to sell meat until the government raised price ceilings. One butcher killed himself, leaving the explanation: "I cannot accustom myself to the satanic clientele in this district...
...freshmen could not accustom themselves to the sloppy and humpy field until they put together a concerted but unsuccessful effort in the closing minutes of play...
...Cryptogamic. College presidents were not amused when Veblen described them (in The Higher Learning in America) as "Captains of Erudition" whose function was to accustom the sons of rough "Captains of Industry" to "genteel solemnities" and urbane forms of "dissipation." Earnest economists who had written cumbersome tomes of unintelligible prose positively hated Veblen when he leaned forward, assumed a poker face and gravely asked them: "If we are getting restless under the taxonomy of a monocotyledonous wage doctrine and a cryptogamic theory of interest, with involute, loculicidal, tomentous and moniliform variants, what is the cytoplasm, centrosome, or karyokinetic process...
...perfectly willing, for the sake of the College, to accustom ourselves to the construction noises between 8 o'clock in the morning and 4 o'clock in the afternoon," said Ken Nedrie '50, petition promoter...
...across the land, shocked radioside "fans tried to accustom themselves to the idea that Joe Louis, the indestructible, was human after all. For half an hour, Big Joe locked himself in his dressing room, away from reporters. When he finally let them in, there was an uncomfortable silence. When a photographer said, "Give us a big smile, Joe," Louis managed a wry grimace. "C'mon, Joe," somebody shouted, "you can smile bigger than that." Answered Joe in a low voice: "I can't open my mouth no more." Wasn't Walcott entitled to a return match...