Word: accustomedness
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The most remarkable feature of the flashy new Sands Macao casino, according to Asian high rollers, isn't the 18-m-tall windows or the 50-ton chandelier or even the bar offering 200 kinds of tea (free!). No, for big spenders accustomed to the dingy, smoke-choked quarters of...
Gathered in my living room in early June, several of my high school friends were relaying what we were doing this summer. Two were lifeguarding, another had landed a job as a maitre d’ at a local Thai joint and one was a camp counselor. And the three...
A crew this unfamiliar with losing will never grow accustomed to finishing any less than first. And while it would have been nice for Harvard’s first varsity eight and its seven seniors to walk away from their final race with a win, the Crimson won�...
After working abroad for the past month, I’m convinced that if all Americans took some time to live outside the cultural bubble of the United States, our foreign policy priorities would be very different. While many Europeans are accustomed to international travel, a very small minority of...
Timothy Pickering, a Senator from Massachusetts who had served as John Adams' Secretary of State, wrote Jefferson to protest his refusal to aid the new Haitian republic: "Are these men not merely to be abandoned to their own efforts but to be deprived of those necessary supplies which for a...