Word: accustomedness
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3) THE MILITARY. Every athletic contest represents some sort of war, from the King-Riggs sexual skirmish to the bloody knockdowns of professional hockey. But the very terminology of football - marches downfield, throwing the bomb, guards, strategies - recalls the Von Clausewitz spirit. For the first time in ten years the...
Orenthal James Simpson has grudgingly grown accustomed to such razzing -and to other problems as well. The most celebrated college player since Red Grange, the two-time All-America from the University of Southern California is perhaps the foremost example of the superstar readjustment syndrome. Only now, at age 26...
As early as the three mile post, the race had been decided, since Harvard had only two men in the top eight. Apparently not accustomed to the fast pace, the harriers fell behind Penn and Columbia. Even past that point, a couple of Columbia runners crept ahead so that the...
Senior midfielder Ric La Civita has improved quite a bit, and sophomore forward Steve Hines looked good against MIT needing only experience to be a real contributor. But Harvard doesn't have half the talent and depth it is accustomed to.
But the Radcliffe Houses do not have individual House libraries and the new requirement that Quadrangle residents trek three-quarters of a mile for the most basic scientific data is just one more example of the mistreatment to which Quad residents have become accustomed. The inequity is even more unjust...