Word: wont
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...children). They saw that even though one could no longer live the life of a mythic Western hero, one could sometimes approximate his simplifying virtues. "I stay away from nuances," he was heard to say. From excesses of psychology too. "Couches are good for one thing only," he was wont to grouse. Reflection, introspection -these activities interfered with the truly important things in life. Like work...
There's a story they tell in Sri Lanka about the baby Krishna, born to a human mother who didn't know she had a god for a son. When he was about three years old he put some sand in his mouth as three-year-olds are wont to do, and as mothers are wont to do, she tried to make him spit it out. After mighty efforts on both sides the boy-god finally opened his mouth; his mother looked in and saw the universe...
...orgy of sex and assassination. Another execrated royal personage is the 8th century Emperor Hsüan Tsung, who was hopelessly enamored of a shapely concubine, Yang Kuei-fei. With characteristic Chinese panache, he built a summer palace for her with 16 bathing pools, where the lady was wont to wash her statuesque limbs under the Emperor's besotted gaze...
What Brooke's campaign is trying to do, meanwhile, is to separate its candidate's public and private lives. Ed Brooke is running on his record, "a record of 12 years of distinguished representation in the Senate." But when Brooke strays from discussing concrete issues--as is his wont--he tries almost to disassociate his name and all that it now implies from the race. He speaks of an ongoing struggle, of the multitudes of Ed Brookes that will arise in the future and of a greater mission. He has tried to match his issue stands with his own identity...
...Eliot was wont to note, April is the cruellest month, but with yesterday's 42-degree, 35-miles-per-hour bluster, Harvard spokesman Spence Fitzgibbons put it better: "It was a really rude...