Word: accustomedness
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A Greyhound bus carrying eight of Jimmy Carter's defense-policy advisers lurched down a red clay road last week and rolled to a stop near a small modern house in a pinewoods about four miles outside of Plains, Ga. Most of the passengers, men of wealth or power...
To some extent, the shadow that lingers over Connally can be attributed to a number of court rulings that hampered the prosecution. For one example: Judge George L. Hart refused to allow evidence to be introduced at the trial showing that Connally once promised Texas oil to President Nixon, evidence...
Mars was a distant shore and the men spread upon it in waves ... The first wave carried with it men accustomed to spaces and coldness and being alone ... They came and made things a little less empty, so that others would find courage to follow.
Odds should be better for four-month-old birds placed atop a tower in New Jersey's Brigantine National Wildlife Refuge earlier this month. Two amateur falconers, Daniel Hays and Edward Howard, both 24, are living in a tent near the tower and keeping an eye on the nesting...
JOHN GLENN, 54, freshman Senator from Ohio, who will be one of the two keynote speakers. Glenn, the first man to orbit the earth, is obviously accustomed to performing with the world's eyes and ears focused on him. It took him three tries before he landed his Senate...