Word: wont
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even after Labor Day, when Sasso finally persuaded Dukakis to venture into the realm of neopopulism with powerful talk of the "middle-class squeeze" and "two-job prosperity," the Governor was wont to abandon the topic without warning. This message madness continued until the final weeks, when he seized on the theme "I'm on your side" and decided to ride the populist pony as far as it would go. Still, he could not master the chords of resentment that are a basic component of economic populism...
...Jackson's audience did, that he provided no explanation of how to pay for this additional health insurance. Dwell instead on Jackson's oft- repeated formulation "There is something wrong with this nation." That sentiment cuts close to the heart of Jackson's appeal to left-liberals who are wont to use their primary votes to send a message. With the black underclass abandoned to their misery, the homeless sleeping on the streets, factories closing and the affluent unabashed at flaunting their possessions, there is a persistent sense that something is awry with the nation, something far deeper than what...
Likewise the Democrats show signs of splintering into post-Reagan tribes (though as is their wont they do not line up neatly behind one candidate). There are the impassioned populists, which is what Gephardt recently decided he would become. There is the party's Washington establishment, dedicated to whittling away at Reaganism by deft compromises, which is what Gephardt belonged to until his self-reinvention. He was also once associated with the Atari Democrats, though Dukakis now might have more of a claim to that half- forgotten label. The old-fashioned liberals have Paul Simon to carry their banner...
...these petty objections can overcome the fact that, if properly approached, the Quad Ice Project is a thing of lyrical and exotic beauty. For this to become readily apparent to the uninitiated requires the willing viewer to assume a more poetic and fantastical frame of mind than is his wont. Tap the vein of poetry latent within us all. Think, not bathroom windows, but towering glaciers. Or, if the bathroom window resemblance remains inescapable, try to overcome its more prosaic implications. These are not ordinary frosted windows; these are the bathroom windows of your dreams, though slightly colder than...
...other hand, abandoned letters in favor of obfuscating memos when it came to discussing, say, the Viet Nam War. Some of the most candid records of that period come from times when a few of the old statesmen were called in for counsel and then, as was their wont, exchanged letters about what they had discussed...