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A.Word.A.Day--cunctator cunctator (kungk-TAY-tuhr) noun One who hesitates; a procrastinator or delayer. [From Latin cunctari (to hesitate, delay).] "No cunctator, he quickly provided his wife with the surefire ammunition to divorce him -- adultery." Richard Kepler Brunner, With Marriage Penalty, It Can Pay to Get Divorced, The Morning Call (Allentown, Pennsylvania), Oct 3, 1999. This week's theme: words to describe people. X-Bonus Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purpose is beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. -Louis Dembitz Brandeis, lawyer, judge, and writer (1856-1941)

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