Word: accustomedness
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I am writing in response to Thursday night's forum (3/11/93) at the Institute of Politics on grade inflation. In particular, I am reacting to a comment made by panelist Dianne Reeder '93. Speaking in support of grade deflation, Reeder quipped that Harvard students, quite accustomed to getting 100 percent...
The Crimson finished last season with a distressing 4-9 record overall, 1-5 Ivy, the only Ancient Eight team it beat was one accustomed to smelling the dark, dank waters of the cellar--Dartmouth.
AMERICANS WERE NOT ACCUSTOMED to what so much of the world had already grown weary of: the sudden, deafening explosion of a car bomb, a hail of glass and debris, the screams of innocent victims followed by the wailing sirens of ambulances. Terrorism seemed like something that happened somewhere else...
Panic is in the air, fueled by too much talk about sacrifice, the S-word here in the Land of the Free. Americans, not accustomed to confronting reality, are overdosing.
A mysterious prophetess, Crone Accustomed Toherface (Jeremy Nye) warns the kingdom (in appropriate iambic pentameter) that evil lies ahead. But the king, who has inexplicably become a Hindu, pays no heed. (The Pudding show can be awfully random.)