Word: accustomedness
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To the Democratic fat cats, "this Lindsay" was a freak, a Park Avenue big talker, a silk-stocking boy. Their candidate, City Controller Abraham David Beame, 59, a mild, mite-size (5 ft. 2 in.) party hack, was admittedly no giantkiller, but he comfortably fitted the mediocre mold to which...
The company's charter had expired in 1914, and rather than go to the expense of setting up a full colonial regime, London offered the settlers their choice between joining South Africa or forming their own "responsible government." For a hardy people accustomed to freedom, the choice was obvious...
Showing the Way. It is the U.S. Marines who are providing the best pilot model for a pacification program. No fewer than 10,000 marines stood guard recently while the peasants near Danang brought in their rice crop free of the Viet Cong-who are accustomed to seizing a large...
The marines at Chu Lai are accustomed to the roar over their tents on the steaming dunes. Less easy to take has been the choking dust, now damped down by the first northern monsoons, and the fact that the nearest liberty is the Marine headquarters town of Danang. "That'...
Salvaging Nasakom. To Indonesians, long accustomed to President Sukarno's friendship with Peking, it seemed odd indeed that Red China could be so viciously maligned. There was nothing really odd about it, for the anti-Chinese campaign simply marked the determination of the army under Defense Minister Nasution to...