Word: wouldn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looked as if the Indian freshmen wouldn't need the extra point they missed on the first try as they galloped 77 yards for another touchdown in the same period and added the point to lead...
...convention and then campaigned vigorously for him in the election race. However farsighted, the action was politically dishonorable; Alfred E. Smith, Roosevelt's opponent for the nomination was an enormous favorite in Boston. So popular was Smith that for months after Curley's break with him, the Boston people wouldn't turn out to hear Curley speak. In that year, the State democratic convention sent Governor Ely as head of the delegation to Chicago to vote for Smith's nomination...
...story wouldn't be complete without a purely Harvard angle. One day a reporter found that Curley for some reason or other, carried a revolver in his desk. When the newsman investivated he discovered that Curley felt in some danger for his life because a few days earlier, he had received a package that ticked. When he opened it, the major found an alarm clock surrounded by preprint candy that a couple of "prankish Harvard youths" had sent...
...court to defend Anthony Cramer, charged with treason for helping Nazi agents who had been landed in the U.S. by U-boat. He lost in the lower courts, but won a reversal in the Supreme Court. The case cost him $800 and a lot of embarrassment. ("My friends wouldn't talk to me. I got spit on in the court.") By then he was making around $100,000 a year...
...Communist trial, he suspected what he was in for. He had studied the Washington sedition case of 1944 when the harassments of lawyers for the defense had exhausted Judge Edward C. Eicher, who died during the case, causing a mistrial. The well-ordered Judge Medina vowed that wouldn't happen...