Word: shouldn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When he heard that a portrait of Confederacy President Jefferson Davis, onetime (1853-57) U.S. Secretary of War, was gathering dust in a storage room in the lower depths of the Pentagon, Florida's Democratic Congressman Robert Sikes took umbrage. "Old Jeff," cried he, "shouldn't be banned to the basement." Once part of the decor in the Defense Secretary's office, Old Jeff's portrait was rehung last week, upstairs in a prominent spot on the wall of an endless Pentagon hall. Still unknown: the identity of the carpetbagger who had kicked Jeff Davis downstairs...
...pleasures and perils of their craft. But when the competition starts, Bud Werner is ready to battle his buddies, is even willing to flout the maxim-especially fitted to skiing-that pride goeth before a fall. "If I say so-and I see no reason why I shouldn't-I expect to get some of the medals," he says. "In fact, I shall be greatly disappointed and even surprised...
...extremely interesting article on the growth of the Catholic Church in Africa. The term "blacks," however, might offend many. Shouldn't you refer to them as "native clergy...
...stirred up the student body. After a sarcastic editorial on the ineptness of the football team, he wrote home to his mother: "The row about Monday's editorial is subsiding--at least half the college think it was quite called for. Something of the kind was necessary but I shouldn't have made it quite so strong...
...shouldn't complain too much," she added quickly. "My husband is a Yalie, and we didn't know the situation in Cambridge. From what I hear, we were lucky to get within ten minutes' walk of the Square...