Word: accustomedness
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Shevchenko's easy exposure has embarrassed the CIA. One of its former top officials complained that the agency handled the case "like a bunch of Keystone Kops." It is also quite possible that the CIA has been relatively lax with Shevchenko because he has been far less valuable as...
Coach Restic hadn't "looked up at the scoreboard" yet. He was too busy trying to figure out a way of dispatching Cornell tailback Joe Holland, Who was hurdling Harvard defenders like Simpson hurdles luggage in an airline terminal. Holland's 55 carries and 244 yards may have upstaged the...
In the late 15th and early 16th centuries, the Borgia family brought the papacy to its nadir. After the death of the notorious Alexander VI in 1503, Cardinal Sforza succeeded in frustrating Borgia ambitions by having decrepit Cardinal Piccolomini elected Pius III. Rapacious Vatican bureaucrats, accustomed to plundering the apartments...
2) YALE: The Elis will be very conspicuous by super back John Pagliaro's absence, but nonetheless very visible in their accustomed position near the top of the heap. And while Harvard coach Joe Restic has been known to call Yale mentor Carmen Cozza "a little boy," Cozza's big...
It may be months, perhaps years, before the world's Catholics can adequately take the measure of their new Pope. But they can take comfort from his insistence that "I am only a poor man, accustomed to little things, and in silence." That is a humble assessment, worthy of a...