Word: wouldn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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About the Ruby trial itself, Belli philosophized that "in Dallas they subconsciously had to show that they were a lawful community and wouldn't stand lynchings," and thus were compelled to have Ruby executed...
Thomas E. Crooks '40, Master of Dudley House, said that he wouldn't care very much one way or the other" if interhouse were voted...
...Pacific Fleet, took a Colt .45 automatic in hand to fire off an "honorary" clip of five at 25 yds. Rooty-toot-toot, he scored three bull's-eyes, two near-misses, promptly tucked the target under his arm to take home, "because my wife wouldn't believe it if I just told her." Why should she? Though he had a pistol range outside his Honolulu office for recreation during the war, he hasn't laid a finger on a gun for the past two years...
...goes by the name of urban renewal, but it might also be called emergency surgery. The metaphor is thoroughly consistent. Considerable pain is involved, and sometimes shock. There is inevitable destruction of healthy tissue, the operation is sometimes a failure, and the patient is really sick or he wouldn't be there in the first place...
Diverted Attention. On the stump, Humphrey counted the countless mis- deeds of Barry Goldwater. "He wouldn't vote yes for Mother's Day," he cried in Peoria, 111., and in Decatur he added: "I imagine that Abraham Lincoln would be called a socialist by the present pretender to the presidency of the Republican Party." As for his own speeches, Humphrey chortled: "I never know whether the audience likes them, but I sure do." He even had fun with his hecklers, smiling down on groups of sign-waving Goldwaterites and saying: "They carry their badge of political...