Word: wouldn
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...During the May 10 riot the Buildings and Grounds people wouldn't let the police into the dormitories because they had been ordered to let no one one in," one head resident said. Dean Williston said that the Radcliffe and Cambridge policing agencies have now coordinated their orders...
Thus, in his opening effort, Lindsay seemed to be falling for that old and not necessarily true cliché about how New York-is-a-nice-place-to-visit-but-I-wouldn't-want-to-live-there. Fact is, more than 8,000,000 people do live there, and most are proud...
...base for much of his own anti-poverty program. But the President did not consider "Frank" to be of Cabinet caliber, and last January Johnson selected Drug Executive John T. Connor to replace the retiring Hodges. Said Roosevelt: "I was disappointed in not being picked, but who wouldn't be? I'm objective enough to know that a businessman should fill that office." Connor and Roosevelt got along all right, but the Secretary wanted to have a top deputy of his own choosing. Roosevelt was a bit restless...
...excused himself so often to huddle secretly with his "advisers" that there was increasing doubt about who actually was the rebel leader. Finally, he was asked who his advisers were, and he gave some meaningless names. "I know these people," said one witness, "and I know he wouldn't even ask them what time...
...bean-pole six-footer at 15, Lyndon played forward on the basketball team, pitched and played first base for the town baseball team, took studies casually. "I wouldn't say I overapplied myself at all," says Johnson. "I liked to play and enjoy myself." No bookworm, he shunned fiction-and still does. Whenever his mother gave him something to read, he would ask: "But Ma, is it real...