Word: wont
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...significant part of their voter vase wassingle issue-- pro rent control," Trumbull says."That just wont be there. Given that electionshave been pretty close, the CCA majority is prettyfragile...
...have lunch on Thursday and they pull it out. "No, sorry, I'm already eating with my prospective employer on that day." (Together people start job hunts early.) Together people definitely do not go the route of writing reminders on their hands, as certain people, such as me, are wont to do. This causes some problems, as I do have enough functioning brain power to take showers and wash my hands on a regular basis. But at least I write things down somewhere--many non-together people forsake even temporary reminders...
...there with the innocent lilt of that riddle format, now didn't we? We bet you expected that the answer would be some sort of pun, as we'll admit we are wont to make--some petty witticism, with which you could chuckle your ennuiaway. Instead, though, you were shocked with a hideous hypothetical...
...Bill Bradley is wont to say, anyone the public deifies will necessarily be demonized by that same body...
After all, I thought, Lyndon Johnson was able to make it through a nationally televised speech declining a second term as president of the United States without bawling. And though it's true that Hanselman is a sensitive '90s man--and sensitive '90s men are wont to shed a tear in public now and then--it's also true that the council presidency isn't quite as big a deal as the presidency of the United States. Hanselman's unabashed display of vulnerability, I thought, was nothing but a cheap publicity stunt...