Word: accustomedness
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The strike against the government of Prime Minister Steingrimur Hermannsson had been called over the issue of wage raises for public workers. Even though Hermannsson's coalition government had managed to reduce inflation from 130% to 13% in 17 months, civil servants, long accustomed to raises indexed to soaring...
Tackle Roger Caron, a fifth-year senior, couldn't agree more--he witnessed the progress of The Jinx from its infancy. "I was accustomed to going home after these games--it was a 'wait 'til next year' sort of thing," he recalled without any apparent regret.
Schlondorf handles the evolution of the romance skillfully, by using the associations of present to past in Swann's mind. A carriage ride hurtles his thoughts to a passionate tryst with Odette in the same carriage. The technique is confusing at first, since Schlondorf forswears the traditional wavering picture and...
Finally, last April, British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe officially announced that Britain would have to surrender administration, but remained determined to fix terms whereby its colony could continue flourishing in the freewheeling style to which it was accustomed. That move prompted the Chinese for the first time to agree...
Serling is one of the dozens of television pioneers who did their best work before the advent of color TV. Like the great black-and-white films of the '30s and '40s, TV series from the early '50s can seem faded and dull to viewers accustomed to...