Word: accustomedness
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TWO centuries ago, their mercantile genius and drive gave the American colonists the world's highest standard of living. The nation since then has grown complacently accustomed to being the richest on earth. Yet the U.S. has rarely been at ease with its wealth, and even now, on the...
That kind of rhetoric is surprising, coming from people long accustomed to equating silence with dignity. But in acts as well as speech, the newly aroused Indian is no longer content to play the obsequious Tonto to the white man's Lone Ranger. A belligerent band of 100 Indians still...
... the most serious threat to civilization is not to kill a man because of his ideas (this has often been done in wartime), but to do so without recognizing it or saying so, and to hide revolutionary justice behind the mask of the penal code. For by hiding violence one...
With the graduation of All-American goaltender Dryden, the Big Red keeps its defensemen back quite a bit more than they were accustomed to last winter. and. consequently, it is almost more difficult to score on them. Harvard managed only eight shots on goalie Brian Cropper in the first period...
Harvard coach Bill Brooks, now in his 40th year of college coaching, again used most of his men in events to which they are not accustomed in the interests of equity, and standout Steve Krause did not compete at all. As a result, the times were rather unspectacular.