Word: accustomedness
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Members of the teams will stay in the dorms of opponents, rather than hotels, and they won't have their accustomed snack money. The squads will only fly to Cornell and Penn and bus to Princeton and Columbia.
The effect is ironic, because the 1970 recession was the nation's mildest in this century. But the reason is plain: the downturn's jolt to Americans' accustomed confidence was far greater than its blow to their pocketbooks. Almost two-thirds are now telling pollsters that the...
Invariably the silence of the early spring morning is broken by the clonking and clanking of horses' hooves on the granite pavement, interspersed with the tinkling of metal and the thumping of wood: the fancy beer wagons on their daily route. This is a sound which Müncheners...
The years before the U.S. entered World War II were enough to exhaust any Westerner's patience. The Nationalist Chinese victory of 1928 over the provincial warlords was never total. Its reformist possibilities were gradually destroyed by corruption and ineptitude and by the bitter power struggle with the emerging...
Few understand Hebrew, and even those who do still seem to have more problems than other new arrivals arrivals-even those from East European countries, most of whom spent at least part of their lives under non-Communist governments. "They use their elbows," said the head of one of Israel...