Word: accustomedness
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Suburbanites have grown accustomed to the sight of McMansions--enormous homes built by the superrich and griped about by the rest of us. But mostly, those monster houses are filled with growing families. Many older Americans see retirement as a ticket out of the hassles of homeownership when they downsize...
And on Saturday, the Crimson promptly—and decisively—dethroned a perennially deep Navy varsity that had grown accustomed to having the Haines Cup on display in Annapolis, Maryland.
In his first Papal homily, Benedict noted that he envisions a Church that “looks with serenity to the past and is not afraid of the future.” We hope that Benedict maintains this forward-looking spirit throughout his papacy and follows through on the ambitious...
“BMF saved my life,” Terry says, remembering how he felt alienated even from members of the black community—those who were accustomed to white suburban ways of thinking. Then he met the BMF brothers.
Not for nothing, however, are calamities like Nevado del Ruiz known as acts of God. For the people who lived and worked in the farmlands around the simmering mountain, the early signs of eruption were accepted as part of the environment. Nor could anyone have predicted that the disaster would...