Word: wouldn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...down, six of the eight tires on the main landing gear blew out. The same computer failure that had affected the forward gear had locked the brakes on the main wheels, freezing them. White had no choice but to go through with the landing. "It was an experience we wouldn't have missed for worlds," said White, "and one we wouldn't like to go through again." As for Cecil, the old serpent will be up to its old tricks again this week...
Crooks said that if the applications continue to pile in at the present rate, the summer school would probably have to devise a policy of selective admissions to many of the courses. "It probably wouldn't work on the first-come, first-served principle," Crooks said, "but I'd sure hate to disappoint a fellow who had come all the way from Omaha and had filed his application in January...
...only U.S. police department suffering an "Escobedo syndrome"-and most of the others blame Chicago for their troubles. "Anybody would have known that guy had a right to see his attorney," snorts a Seattle police lieutenant. "If they hadn't messed up, we wouldn't be stuck today." To get unstuck, more and more police are handing out impeccable warnings. "We warn, warn, warn," says Denver D.A. Bert M. Keating. "It may hurt to stop the guy in midsentence," adds Miami Beach Police Chief Rocky Pomerance, "but what...
...hard to live up to his name as he accepted the second-place check for $12,000-giving him a total of $20,300 for ten days' work. That wasn't so bad, but his smile grew thin when he thought of what might have been. "You wouldn't be human," he sighed, "if you weren't depressed...
...Cambridge, gained through three years of osmosis. One's values change in the course of an undergraduate career, and the things that seem crucial freshman year are usually seen in a different light by the time one is a junior or senior. Of course, a student proctor's purpose wouldn't be to take advisees on his knee and tell them what it's important to worry about while at Harvard--few seniors are infinite in their wisdom anyway. But a different perspective is valuable, and hopefully an upperclassman adviser could supply...