Word: wont
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Poet Rainer Maria Rilke, who was once Rodin's secretary, described what his boss was after: "Rodin assumed that if caught quickly, the simple movements of the model . . . contain the strength of an expression which is not surmised, because one is not wont to follow it with intense and constant attention. By not permitting his eyes to leave the model for an instant, and by allowing his quick and trained hand free play over the drawing paper, Rodin seized an enormous number of never before observed and hitherto unrecorded gestures of which the radiating force of expression was immense...
...really made the pots boil was not acting like a candidate at all. He was Fiorello LaGuardia and he was fuming over a foaming glass of beer in Czechoslovakia (see FOREIGN NEWS). But last week dumpy Butch LaGuardia, who has been wont to characterize New York City's leading Democrats as "those political bums," bobbed up in the middle of a meaty Democratic stew. No Democrat at all (he is a member of the American Labor Party), he was suddenly a darling of the Democratic bigwigs and a leading contender for their U.S. Senate nomination...
...time in Britain was up), people shook his hand and told him not to worry. From all over England, letters poured in blasting the Government and offering assistance. The Government retreated. This week it extended Davis' stay in Britain until January (when the weather in Stoke is wont to be particularly foul...
...Sample (from nine-year-old Charles Smith of St. Louis, whose nominee did not win): "Im going to have a new teacher tomorrow. Ive been promoted up to three high. I wont say Im not glad to be promoted. But it makes me feel kind of sad when I think about going up above Miss Tobin. She was my teacher all through three low and no matter how high I ever go she will still be the best teacher in the world. All of the kids say that. Michael Reed will tell you the same. Michael and I were walking...
Into this explosive situation last week trod President Truman. As is his wont, the President simplified the complex situation...