Word: shouldn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remembers, too, the time he played hooky with a pal named Mel McQuarry. When Charlie got home, his father was waiting with a razor strop. Next morning at school, the teacher started to give him a thrashing. Says Rhyne: "I argued as hard as I could that she shouldn't lick me because I'd already got my beating. I offered to pull down my pants to prove it, and she let me off. It was my first double jeopardy case...
...person wanting to leave, but if I think his position unwise I tell him so. If a man says he wants to withdraw to mature I tell him that's nonsense. He must have a more positive purpose. I often get students who want to be told why they shouldn't leave...
...Tunisians readily admit that they let Algerian guerrillas into Tunisia to rest or get medical treatment. ("Why shouldn't we? We are not at war with Algeria.") And several Western correspondents have visited camps in Tunisia occupied by unwounded, closely disciplined F.L.N. men. But these troops do not appear in public in uniform, do not carry weapons and appear to be far less numerous than the French charge...
Invitation to Yearning. In Stourbridge, England, after Elizabeth Poulton, 53, spotted a supermarket sign reading "Please Take a Basket," took one home, returned for another a week later, and won the judge's swift verdict that she was not guilty of theft ("Why shouldn't someone take one?"), the store manager removed the sign...
...General Eisenhower "wrote the best letter on why a military man shouldn't be President of the U.S. that's ever been stated ... He gave me a copy of it and I've still got it, and I never used it on him at all ... Zachary Taylor and General Grant and the present occupant of the White House are good men. They're honorable men. They want to do the right thing, but they've been educated in a manner that's like a horse with blinders on-he only sees one direction right...