Word: wont
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Crimson swordsmen are easily rattled. They blew last week's Penn match when two sabre men dropped tense 5-4 bouts in the first round. But he probably wont' lose their cool against Princeton, one of the League's weaker teams...
Williams, which lost at Harvard by an score last year, lost only two of its starting nine through graduation. One of the two graduating seniors was captain Mike Anniston. Against Harvard last year, several of the matches wont to games, though Harvard managed to win all the close ones...
...gratified at your extensive review of my autobiography [Dec. 24]. In my book, 1 stated my highly critical views of the manner in which governments and religion have dealt with overpopulation. In conclusion, I wrote: "In all likelihood, modern civilization will solve [these problems] as it is wont to do: by a reductio ad absurdiun, such as war; or by technological-administrative interventions, such as forced migration, compulsory sterilization, and stealthy pills, which invariably encroach on human dignity and freedom and destroy the few good and beautiful things that have not yet vanished in the rummage sale of ancient cultures...
That was Charles de Gaulle fighting for his political life on French television last week, apologizing for the views that for seven years he was wont to deliver from his haughty isolation in the Elysée. Instead, a fascinated France saw a new De Gaulle, submitting night after night, for the first time in his life, to the interrogation of a newspaperman-forced to defend his accomplishments as President, to explain his grand designs, reduced to begging for his re-election like any politician...
...world where only such freshly limned ladies as Fanny Hill and Fielding's Sophia Western were admitted to the discourse. Parisian culture was conducted far differently: it was the women who presided over the salons of serious talk. On Tuesdays, for example, the Marquise de Lambert was wont to entertain scientists in her stately salon, and on Wednesdays writers, artists and scholars. "She was one of the hundreds of gracious, cultured, civilized women who make the history of France the most fascinating story in the world...