Word: wont
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...patchwork coverlet. Over his bed, his tall silk stovepipe hat hung on a peg in the wall. Through the dusty windows, his daughter Ella could catch glimpses of the worn-out Texas land. She wrote laboriously: "Sir. This to say Popa offi low. Now he done stop eating ennything, wont nothing and no one. I am riting let you no he no good. He might be living when you get hear and then he might not." A few hours later, when the coons and possums and mean grey foxes began to move through the scrub oak and cedars, Ella added...
Examinations take their toll again tomorrow. The CRIMSON will not be snuggling on doorsteps Wednesday as is its wont, but one can look for his regular edition of Cambridge's Only Breakfast Table Daily on Thursday morning...
...interest in us (colored troops in Leghorn) than we had formerly experienced. He instituted many changes and improvements, came around to ask individual G.I.s among us how they were getting on, and in other ways treated us as American soldiers (which type of treatment it was not always our wont to receive). He was a standout...
That profound thinker, Henry Wallace, darling of the totalitarian liberals,* is wont to contrast political democracy in the U.S. with the "economic democracy" of the Soviet Union...
...Late? President Truman had been under heavy pressure from two sides: those who wanted all-out aid for Chiang and those who wanted to cut present U.S. help still further. The President might have thought that, as is his wont, he was taking a position squarely in the middle. Actually, he was endorsing a policy which is already out of date...