Word: accustomedness
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In many underdeveloped countries, child labor is not looked upon as something unnatural or illegal. After spending a year in Bogota, Colombia, I grew accustomed to seeing young children, ages five to 15, roaming the streets, begging and stealing. A working child is seen as a step up from a...
Brezhnev was quintessentially Russian. He was a mixture of crudeness and warmth; at the same time brutal and engaging, cunning and disarming. While he boasted of Soviet strength, one had the sense that he was not really all that sure of it. Having grown up in a backward society nearly...
Nearly 15 years ago, a vanilla tornado named Tom Wolfe whirled out of Esquire and the New York Herald Tribune's Sunday magazine supplement to announce the coming of the pop-rock culture. Readers accustomed to spending their weekends with articles like "Brazil: Colossus of the South" were suddenly...
Carter's standing in the world plunged to a new low as a result of last week's strange performance at the top in the nation that is supposed to be the economic and political leader of the non-Communist world. Accustomed to their parliamentary system, in which...
New technology has produced cameras that are compact and need no extra light; court rules limit their number and location. Perhaps just as important, people have become accustomed to the pervasiveness of TV. Studies in several states show little evidence that cameras affect jurors or witnesses. At the Bundy trial...