Word: accustomedness
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As a result, Manet's professional life often reads like an endless scandal. The all-too-earthy goddess Olympia, which he painted in 1863, rocked an art world accustomed to nymphs and satyrs, emperors and gladiators: it was obvious from the bouquet of flowers carried by her Negro maid...
Dwindling Surpluses. The major reason for the price rise is the startling decline in U.S. farm surpluses. Because of Government crop controls and the increasing size of foreign-aid shipments of food to famine-threatened nations, the wheat surplus has dropped since 1963 from 32.5 million to 15.2 million metric...
Astounded Wellington. In the handsome, hilly, normally staid city of Wellington, the President found that he was indeed regarded as a friend. There was some razzing from Viet Nam protesters; and the BOBBY KENNEDY FOR PRESIDENT banners that were to plague him throughout the area-including a huge one draped...
The Yale course is short and fast, a disadvantage for Harvard runners accustomed to long and hilly Franklin Park. Another problem is that only Smith among the Crimson harriers has even seen the place.
Furthermore, Hilles's location should relieve Harvard men of what seems to have been their chief grounds for barring Cliffies: the fear that the girls, like locusts, will descend at 9 p.m. to pick reserve book shelves clean. It would be a rare Cliffies who would choose to trudge to...