Word: wouldn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said Rockefeller, "that the Republican Party is the party of civil rights." Later on, Washington's Democratic Governor Albert Rosellini angrily accused Rocky of "using the grave issue of civil rights as ammunition for political warfare." Retorted Rockefeller: "Everybody sitting around this table is a politician or he wouldn't be here...
...quit while it was ahead, it wouldn't have been an especially good play, but it certainly wouldn't have been an especially bad one. Which, unfortunately, it is. Ron Levin's forty-minute one-acter gives signs, at first, of turning into a quietly amusing comedy. But toward the end, which is close enough to the beginning to make abrupt changes disconcerting, the play becomes heavily philosophical, expiring with a great cry of hoarse, straight-from-the-soul spiritual agony...
...should have realized sooner that Austria (pop. 7,000,000) could not possibly absorb 40 million bushels of feed grains in four years. "You could feed all the chickens and pigs in Austria 24 hours a day," snickered one expert, "and it would still be piled so high you wouldn't be able to drive through the streets of Vienna." U.S. officials, moreover, must have been monumentally careless to let 24 million bushels of grain get lost. That comes to 665,000 tons, or roughly 66 shiploads...
...Soviet boss was equally contemptuous on the subject of Peking's warmongering foreign policy. "They say one should start a revolution, a war," he shouted, "and on the corpses and the ruins, a more prosperous society will be created. And who would remain in this prosperous society? Wouldn't the living envy the dead?" Directly accusing the Chinese of trying to unseat him, Khrushchev dared Peking to take its case to the Soviet people: "I declare to those who would like to overthrow us-I challenge you, comrades-let's pick out any plant or collective farm...
...Harris' charming portrayal of Miss Z which gave the production its lively quality. Her superb ear for dialect and speech rhythm, the expert manner in which she used her full vocal range, and the lovely lilt of her voice as she ended her statements with "mightn't I?" or "wouldn't it?" helped her to bring the character to life with remarkable naturalness. The sparkle of her eyes as she spoke and the adroitness with which she changed facial expressions and movements created humor in the domineering character of Miss Z. Subsequently, it became perfectly understandable to the audience that...