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Paley went on to make records there with John Wesley Harding and the Mighty Lemon Drops before helming a would-be comeback album by Lewis called “Young Blood” in 1995.

So instead of treating them as bystanders or even would-be adversaries on this issue, why not include them in the project by treating abortion as a freedom issue that was vital to all Americans?

They will help determine whether Trump can undo the checks and balances the founders wrote into the Constitution, and turn the executive branch into an instrument of a would-be autocrat’s will.

They emphasized warnings from many of his own closest advisors and top military brass that he was a would-be fascist who would be unencumbered if given another term.

At City Hall, poll workers had struggled with a stuck door, confusing a handful of would-be voters.