Word: wont
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...diary he had begun in favor of less widely notebooks. In 1758, when he began his practice of law and was riding circuit form Maine to Cape Cod, he used to carry several of these littler books with him, jotting down impressions from time to time. As was his wont for most of his early diary-writing years (he kept a journal of some form or another until he left the Presidency), he followed no rigid pattern as to which books he wrote in. "He sometimes had three or four books going at once," according to Butterfield...
Apologists for NATO are wont to find proof of the Alliance's vitality in the quantity of discord it can contain without actually flying apart. By that negative measure, NATO was positively brimming with health as its defense ministers met in Paris last week. They came armed with bulging portfolios of grievances-and never opened them...
Polyphonic Thickets. That the symphony was played at all was no small triumph. Ives wrote it half a century ago, and, as was his wont, haphazardly stuffed parts of it into desk drawers and notebooks around the house. When he died at 80 in 1954, what remained of the final movement was an incomplete jumble of illegible manuscripts. Then, by chance, the missing pages of the movement were discovered in an old trunk, and musicologists set about the laborious task of deciphering Ives's penciled scrawlings. The polyphonic thickets were so incredibly dense that it took ten years...
...political barometers suggest that Harold Wilson is likely to hold office for some time. He is, after all, a surprising as well as pragmatic socialist, who has sought that popular path-the middle of the road. In office, the Tories became considerably less conservative than had been their wont. In fact, on both sides extremism is in swift decline. The Ban-the-Bombers have all but faded from the political scene. So have the hidebound Tories and harrumphing Colonel Blimps...
Racial hatreds plague all Asian nations, which present a vast, graduated racial spectrum, from the blonde ethnic Russians of bleak Sinkiang through the anthracite Tamils of India and Ceylon, whose daughters were of such black velvety loveliness that in World War II lonely American servicemen were wont to sigh, "I'd walk a mile for a Tamil." Now a new G.I. generation is entranced by Saigon's graceful Cochinchinoises but is surprised to find Asian girls just as sensitive to racial nuances as the snobbiest New Orleans debutante...