Word: accustomedness
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But it is extremely difficult, if not fruitless, to criticize poetry a century after it is written. The modern reader can not have the correct appreciation for Melville's verse, because modern tastes have completely redefined what is acceptable in poetry. Tennyson, Longfellow, Byron, Shelley, all sound strange and forced...
IN the course of each week, TIME correspondents are accustomed to covering everything from concerts to Cabinet meetings, from labor strikes to society soirees. Seldom have they been faced with an assignment as grim as that demanded of them by this week's cover story on prisons: to provide...
Last night some swimmers entered their regular events in order to get a trial run before facing Dartmouth, while others preferred to keep the pressure to a minimum and swam strokes to which they are not accustomed.
The bipartisan group of reformers is made up of Republicans William Saxbe of Ohio and Richard Schweiker of Pennsylvania and Democrats Alan Cranston of California and Harold Hughes of Iowa. Because this was their first term, they were not accustomed to the quaint ways in which the Senate fails to...
The courts had wooden wall that gave a big bounce to the ball. Harvard, more accustomed to a lob game and soft touch, had to adapt to the livelier back and front walls.