Word: accustomedness
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Flying out of Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion airport recently, after covering the outbreak of violence between Israel and Hizballah, I got the usual treatment for a gentile foreigner: half an hour of questioning by a young security agent before I even got to the counter. He started with "when...
Thanks to technology, every literary agent can tell every author, "Your book's great." We let Amazon's rating system deliver the truth. Every politician can surround himself with yes men. Only the polls have the courage to say no. We're so accustomed to the watered-down, milquetoast version...
Accustomed to Harvard students’ propensity to date sparingly and marry older, I was floored to discover, while catching up on hometown gossip, that many of the people I had gone to high school with were planning to get married in the next few years. Their high school relationships...
This is a pretext. The authorities have been biting their nails for weeks now on how to move the parade elsewhere. Earlier on in the month, the city’s police issued this quite embarrassing statement: “in Tel Aviv, they are more accustomed to such large...
In his business affairs, Morgan was a man accustomed to handling things personally. One of his biggest objections to the way Roosevelt had sprung the Northern Securities suit was that the President had not quietly tipped him in advance. Large sums of borrowed money were at stake, and the abrupt...