Word: wont
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Take last Saturday. I was sitting in my room, doing one of those take-home labs that Physics 15b is wont to assign. I had just scared my finger on the soldering iron that I was less-than-deftly using when the phone rang. It was fellow Crimson sports editor Eric Brown...
When "the dictators"-as President Clinton is wont to call them-get the message that their ticket has been punched, they won't have without a fight. Not a fight in the traditional sense, but other more violence aimed at leaving a few American soldiers deal and turning American public opinion against the Haitian adventure. This is a storm that the administration must weather. The good of the Haitian people and the credibility of American foreign police are intertwined. To back down would do serious damage to both...
...somewhat heavy-handed lampoon of the American health- care system -- bad Joseph Heller, say. It gets worse. If Murphy is furloughed for the prolonged pre-transplant regimen, afterward he would return to prison. Would he be furloughed promptly again if a heart became available unexpectedly, as donor hearts are wont to do? The Bureau of Prisons says he would be. Murphy has his doubts. Doctors see a logistical snarl that could hopelessly compromise the success of the transplant. The authorities shrug. "The Bureau of Prisons doesn't have a hang-up," explains Robert McFadden, executive assistant to the warden...
...basic plot remains, and it's an engagingly complex one as most of Crichton's scenarios are wont to be. A gorgeous party girl is found strangled on the boardroom table of a Japanese conglomerate one floor above a gala bash celebrating the opening of the new company headquarters...
When Harvard students think of musical groups on campus, names like Mozart or Krokodiloes come to mind. Spanking Venus is probably wont make the list. Here is a guide to some of the hands at Harvard and how they got their names...