Word: accustomedness
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Alaska's only Congressman, Republican Don Young, is tired of environmentalists in Washington protecting so much of Alaska's wilderness from commercial development-and possible pollution. But he is even more furious that they have not done a better job in D.C. His lungs were so accustomed to...
Nonetheless, inflation courses on at 8% to 10% a month-lower than under Isabelita, but still corrosive. Accustomed to lavish salaries and the best and cheapest food in South America, Argentines are eating less steak and moonlighting to stay solvent. Real wages have plummeted by 50% to 60% in a...
Haskins said at the meeting that as a principal, he encouraged teachers to be more creative when dealing with their students. He added that older teachers who became accustomed to outdated modes of teaching often responded enthusiastically to an opportunity to implement new methods.
Although she never met Ho, she pieced together elements of her character from comments by various members of the Chairman's family, and occasionally from the Chairman, who was notably reticent about her. Ho Tzu-chen, Chiang Ch'ing was made to realize, was a stubborn woman who...
AFTER THE FACT. Explorers accustomed to certain tracks of thought might follow that thread of phrase down different pathways of a speculative labyrinth. Explaining the exhibit's title, a journalist might ferret out the meaning: "investigate, search for, the fact"; an historian might assume "later than, subsequent to, the fact...