Word: accustomedness
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Five managers from his newspaper, the Daily Mirror, a working-class tabloid housed in the adjoining Mirror Group building, surround him at the table. Though they are accustomed to the constant interruptions, the lightning shifts in ideas, deals, languages, Maxwell knows they are growing impatient and holds them in check...
Quayle's wife Marilyn responded by packing the brood off for two weeks to a friend in the country, while their father fended off questions about his background. "We needed to get accustomed to a new campaign, but we also had to get our children back on an even keel...
The Crimson will play games this weekend against three of five New England League foes it has become accustomed to playing this year. Harvard will probably play Brown in the tournament championship. Against the other squads in the competition, Harvard is 4-0 against MIT this year, 3-0 against...
Initially some residents complained about the crackdown, but they have quickly become accustomed to the feeling of safety it provided. The newly married residents may bolster a tenant patrol that will soon take the place of the police. Says Lane: "Hopefully these guys who are hiding and ducking and dodging...
At one point Meyers and Sidey switched assignments for several weeks. Meyers, accustomed to the longer meal breaks on the Nixon campaign, lost 2 1/2 lbs. Sidey recalls that a Kennedy staffer joked that "the Senator has said that 17 million Americans go to bed hungry at night, and he...