Word: accustomedness
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MY CHANCE to haunt them is almost over. It took me three-and-a-half years here to come to grips with my own mortality, to grow comfortable with the thought that Harvard could not make me over into something I had once desired, but now fear. I like to...
Moscow Bureau Chief Bruce Nelan is accustomed to covering diplomatic affairs, but in recent weeks he played diplomat as well as painstakingly negotiating the final details of a meeting with Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev. Nelan was successful, and last Tuesday he and a team of TIME journalists joined Brezhnev...
Even more compelling for the Chinese, accustomed to a fare of jingoism on television, was the airing of the 1957 production of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, with Gina Lollobrigida as the sultry Esmeralda in a low-cut red gown. Also shown on TV was a short film on America...
Marriage Counselor Gloria Pineles of Rego Park, N.Y., finds that inflation is increasingly endangering family stability. Says she: "People are accustomed to living a certain lifestyle, and all of a sudden they find that they cannot take an annual vacation or send their second child to college. This leads to...
I cautiously glanced over my shoulder to see who was behind me. I expected that it would probably be one of the loons that you grow accustomed to seeing around Harvard Square, one of those hypersensitive geniuses who, instead of becoming Einsteins, had slipped the other way, taking one too...