Word: accustomedness
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Again, the answer goes back to France. Nacho Cheese is the only flavor in France so I got accustomed to it. Also, since we don’t have it, we sort of regarded Cool Ranch as inferior.
Maybe we can. Americans are generally unfriendly to security measures that intrude too much on their privacy. But that was before last week, before they saw the crematoriums in New York City and Washington and started to wonder if the next dive-bombing airliner could be aimed at them. If...
Molly Galo had grown accustomed to getting up at 3 a.m. to nurse her infant son. The tender moments in the quiet house were good for both mother and baby. But she won't do it anymore--at least not alone. Molly's husband Matt works on the 75th floor...
During my long walk home Tuesday, it was on a block of lower Third Avenue--that is, the Bowery--that I first felt reassured. All the storefront missions were hopping, their doors wide open. The mission workers were on the sidewalk exuding matter-of-fact competence as they offered their...
I shall leave the question how our nation might respond to these awful events to others. But I say all that because I think that, before we leap to respond, it would help if we could put some perspective on whats happened. Its not unbelievable, or unprecedented, or incomprehensible. Its...