Word: accustomed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What may hurt the team severely is a lack of cohesiveness. Cuff may be rusty after a two-year layoff from organized competition, and Bry Danner is, after all, only a sophomore, and it will take a while for him to accustom himself to the faster varsity brand of basketball. Bowditch, at guard, must learn the nuances of a new position, and Donohue will not have the complementary services of George Harrington this winter...
...Cross & vacations with pay ... Oh if we was legal Lad. If ony we was legal like the other cigarette companies. Every year I'd plow back one percent of the gross inta advertising . . . Girl sittin in a swing-lots of flowers an things aroun her indicating she is accustom to the better things life offers-an under it it say-I smoke Poincianas...
...traveled third class or used the public transport services or had to go steerage to go to their last destination in circumstances which nothing in their lifetime has prepared them for, and to inflict on them a dying so completely contrary to their living. It would be charity to accustom them to equality at a slightly earlier date in their lives...
There will, of course, always be misfits. Some students can never accustom themselves to institutional living, and many never accommodate themselves to a House they never chose. The loss of these few individuals will not seriously weaken the system, and the University already recognizes their demands. The results of the recent poll do not seem to indicate that the ratio of malcontents has increased, but show that certain facets of the system need improvement. Once these measures are taken, there will be little demand to move...
...certainly not trying to be coy ... As soon as I feel that the whole thing is completely clarified and that I can say where the path of duty is ... It is a very critical thing to change governments in this country at a time that it is unexpected. We accustom ourselves, and so do foreign governments, changing our government every four years, but always something happens that is untoward when a government is changed at other times. It is a rather startling thing. They tell me that [there was] even some disturbance in the stock market at the time...