Word: accustomedness
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Geordie Lemmon, playing two notches up from his accustomed number four position, starred in a four-game battle against Dartmouth's talented Ned Mandel, dropping the first game but roaring back to take the final three stanzas.
"We are accustomed to an absence of freedom," writes one dissident in his memoirs and Rubenstein sets himself to disclosing Stalin's arctic gulags, what Solzhenitsyn called the "sewage disposal system." Over seven million more returned from these purgatories during Kruschev's "thaw". Many of the those prisoners went on...
But, by and large, the incoming Republicans do not seem to mind. At least ten Reagan Cabinet members are millionaires, accustomed to six-figure price tags if not 16% mortgage rates.
For his part, the President made every effort to be fair to the well-behaved horde, calling on reporters from small newspapers, such as the Watertown (N.Y.) Daily Times, as well as major news organizations (NBC and CBS each got in two questions). "I know I've been staying...
That is provided by William Weaver's The Golden Century of Italian Opera, a lavishly illustrated account of the glorious years from 1815 to the mid-1920s, from The Barber of Seville to Turandot. "All we contemporary composers, without exception, are so many pygmies beside this great master," Bellini...