Word: accustoming
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...tend to accustom ourselves to Shakespeare played by actors in their fifties and sixties. It is a pleasure to report that this Richard III employs many performers who look young, for the play is largely about people under the age of 30. Nearly half of the company assembled by Ernotte and his star have recently acted with Moriarty or are members of the Potter's Field troupe founded by Moriarty three years...
...delightfully exotic food--stuffed grape leaves, soups with unpronouncable names and apricot desserts. But the food aside, visiting the relatives is part and parcel of the vacation ordeal. The same recital of courses and social life is in order, with the exception that my grandmother cannot quite accustom herself to my unmarried status. She asks curiously, "How's your boyfriend?" "Fine, Gramma." "Are you getting married?" "Nooo, Gramma!" Then she concedes magnanimously that I can wait until after I graduate--preferably the day after--to marry...
...inviting myself there for part of a summer. Perhaps someday I will. But right now I know I would tire of the timeless hills and mountain brooks and would eventually wring the neck of a rooster that woke me on a sleepy Sunday. Summer camping never managed to accustom me to outhouses; I will never adjust to life without steaming baths. But when we drove to the bus stop, in a cranky Vega smelling strongly of Bessie, I had a little more faith in naive dreams and images of Paradise...
...shape, Stilwell has ordered an exhausting training regimen, and no outfit has carried his orders further than the 2nd Division. Each quarter, every unit of the 2nd undergoes two weeks of training in night fighting; the men sleep during the day and maneuver at night in rugged terrain to accustom themselves to the night attacks employed by Communist troops 25 years ago. Every six months the division's infantrymen participate in air-mobile exercises complete with artillery support, helicopter gunships and fighter-bombers-and live ammunition...
...volunteer proves to himself that he can succeed in a tough situation. He must work in a language and culture which is new to him. He must accustom himself to a standard of living which does not include that which he previously took for granted in the United States such as hot, running water or meat. Some volunteers live in inaccessible communities for weeks without contact with other Americans...