Word: wouldn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After a generation of working for other people's publications, Stone decided he'd been "carrying on a soliloquy inside a telephone booth." He tired of researching news that city editors wouldn't print. He yearned for a job that wouldn't ask him to soften his view, to be a promoter or a salesman; a job in which he would be totally responsible for all his misdeeds. He longed to be a guerrilla warrior. But offering a "good left opposition" inside the New Deal was a thing of the remote past; by the Haunted Fifties, America's left hand...
...third book, in fact, the "practically-perfect-in-every-way" nanny announced that she wouldn't be returning. At that time, a small boy wrote to Miss Travers, "Nadum, I've just read the third Mary Poppins, you're awful . . . Madum, you shouldn't have done that, you made the children...
...full time executive director and several assistants (the large anti-poverty committee of more than 40 people is completely voluntary). Even if the application were approved tomorrow--it won't because it's been bogged down in Washington for more than a month--the committee wouldn't have anybody to name as executive director. It's still interviewing candidates...
...hours spent In Harm's Way. At one moment he shrewdly plays the grimness of war against the undeniable glamour of it, next diverts the flow of sentimental clichés into a vein of snappish humor. "I'd enjoy meeting your son," says Meredith. "Naw-you wouldn't," grumbles Wayne, eying the lad across a messroom with eloquent distaste. Other scenes crackle comfortably: O'Neal cravenly having his backbone slapped into shape in the men's washup; Andrews placidly playing croquet on his front lawn under the snout of an anti-aircraft battery...
...droned on-and on and on. The crowd was quiet -and bored. Finally, after two hours, arose the man everyone had been waiting to hear. Martin Luther King was eloquent. "We have walked on meandering highways and rested our bodies on rocky byways," he said. "They told us we wouldn't get here. And there were those who said that we would get here only over their dead bodies, but all the world today knows that we are here and that we are standing before the forces of power in the state of Alabama, saying...