Word: accustomedness
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Chiapas' campesinos are painfully accustomed to the iron fist of feudal P.R.I. chieftains, known as caciques, who make them survive on small hardscrabble plots. Land disputes in the state are frequent and usually settled with guns. But as democracy finally takes hold in Mexico--last year opposition parties won control...
WASHINGTON: Already accustomed to more needles than a porcupine, military personnel will soon be getting an anthrax vaccination ? a shot, some vets claim, that contributed to Gulf War Syndrome. The Pentagon plans to inoculate all 1.5 million men and women in the armed forces against the deadly anthrax spores.
In the end, Schmemann recognizes both the faults of tsarist Russia and the positive aspects of the communist dream. He leaves us with sympathy for the trials of the Russian countryside and with the recognition that, accustomed to changing forms of oppression and persecution, the people of a Russian village...
When I asked a group of students at Lowell House recently if any of them had thought of running for public office, one of them quipped, "All Harvard students are planning on being President." The laughter that followed was only partly at my expense. On campus only since September, I...
One aspect of her success, however, surprises even the assertive Malkani: the men she negotiated with in the Middle East, though hardly accustomed to dealing with women as equals, "were very, very welcoming. It was amazing." An explanation might have been the sheer novelty of meeting an American female chief...