Word: accustomedness
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Philadelphia fans are, by necessity, a tough lot. As the home to the professional sports franchise with the most losses in history—the National League’s Philadelphia Phillies—Philadelphia has become accustomed to dealing with defeat. There has been a remarkable flow of teams...
breaking attendance records everywhere he goes. Playing for his hometown team, HC Rabat Kladno, he scored 11 goals and made 17 assists in 17 games. (In November, he moved to Siberia's Avangard Omsk, sponsored by billionaire Roman Abramovich.) The transitions have not all been smooth. The European emphasis on...
"I think people are going to be disappointed with the yeti in the forest," warns Hicks, who says the apes he has seen are clearly chimps, although some are strangely oversize. "The evidence doesn't point to [a new species]. I think what needs to be focused on is the...
That difference may seem negligible, but the 2,252 square feet of ice Crimson defenders aren’t accustomed to defending certainly won’t be. Like Minnesota, Northern Michigan (9-4-3, 7-3-2 CCHA), Harvard’s adversary in the opening round, also regularly...
Nye says he hopes the book is read by people interested in foreign policy, but at a different angle than that to which they are accustomed. “When you read something in academic prose it’s like the script of a film,” he...