Word: accustomedness
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It also leads to an excessive emphasis on issues. The word focused is used as a compliment these days, but where it means discipline, it just as often suggests tunnel vision. Political chatter to the contrary, I do not think that most people want to listen to speeches devoted to...
The 15 days at Camp David took on an odd life of their own. Dozens of golf carts zipped from cabin to cabin at the northern Maryland presidential retreat, with Israeli and Palestinian officials scrunched in them haggling with one another and dodging chipmunks darting across their paths. There were...
Charles Fournier, a former army sergeant and nursing-home administrator who was accustomed to bossing people around, used to swear he would kill himself before he'd let anyone put him in a nursing home. So he was almost as baffled as his wife was when, after two strokes, he...
In Farragut Square, I heard the couriers before I saw them. It was a boisterous laugh: Five couriers gathered, their bikes resting in the grass, joking about a day well spent. D.C. interns have a culture of their own; as a media person I am somewhat off the intern routine...
Today, however, she is worried that as a result of the Conference vote, Pastor Hall--who has already stopped performing any weddings at all because of the ban on gay nuptials--may feel called to lead Trinity out of the church altogether. That would put Wise in a terrible place...