Word: accustomedness
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Relief workers stationed in Liberia are accustomed to their share of danger, but last week even they had seen enough. As the capital, Monrovia, was engulfed in the worst round of terror in six years, relief workers huddled around two-way radios waiting for news of an evacuation. During lulls...
To a Montanan, that is. Since moving here from the temperate East Coast, I've grown accustomed to the state's extremes--of topography, of climate, of behavior--and even somewhat proud of them. When the highway speed limit was removed last winter (not increased, removed), I cheered. When wolf...
Harvard graduates are accustomed to giving to a specific faculty or for financial aid for a specific school, not to the University in general, Glimp said.
Some of the well-known comforts which we have become accustomed to may well disappear when most of us have entered the job market, but the new opportunities for growth and development certainly outweigh the grief over loss of security. Somebody has to take the initiative to take up the...
ROBERT WRIGHT is accustomed to thinking of the human mind as an intricate machine. He has long been fascinated with evolutionary psychology--a field that views the brain as a mechanism built by the genes and shaped by natural selection--and has written extensively about it, both in his 1994...