Word: accustomedness
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And Park did deal with it, not with pen or mouth but with performance, and his silent, business-like approach to off-season criticism was rousingly successful. Park truly "did his job" as he had always done it at Harvard; emphasizing speed, pitching and defense, and seasoning it with his...
The Crowned Cannibals could not have been published in Iran; it is written for Americans, people accustomed to thinking of their nation as free of torture and repression. Baraheni's description of Iran shows the fallacy of that belief: our aid has supported the Shah throughout his regime, as our...
Easy Laws. Honda led an earlier attempt to put the U.S. on two wheels. In the mid-'60s it sold lightweight, brightly colored machines that helped strip motorcycling of its greasy, violent image. But sales fell off, largely because state laws turned ownership of the little bikes into a...
Women came to running more slowly and shyly than men. They were even less accustomed than men to the pain of exercise. Breasts jounced and drew hoots from male motorists. The all-important running one-handed noseblow, a maneuver performed without Kleenex, was unladylike. When Judy Sanford, 33, a Houston...
High Grades. The bribery and bureaucratic malfeasance that nearly drove Pertamina under is far from rare in Indonesia. Says a Jakarta schoolteacher who is accustomed to rewarding the children of officers and bureaucrats with high grades in return for gifts from their fathers: "If you can get into the government...