Word: wouldn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opposition: "They believe benefits will trickle down, like coffee in a percolator, from management to workers. They believe it. I don't." And what does Powers believe? Says he: "The only thing that counts is muscle. If disputes were settled by reason or justice, there wouldn't be unions...
...from his life. Noting a hole in his wool sweater, he mutters: "So have a good meal, moths. Soon I'll be dead. You'll have the whole sweater to yourselves. And my suit, too. Not that I think it's worth eating. But then I wouldn't know. I'm not a moth." A reader is torn between exasperation and pity. It is a measure of Fruchter's skill that he can make the old man so grotesque and at the same time so sympathetic...
...really too bad the Ivy League basketball season didn't end yesterday. If it had, the Crimson varsity would have finished in a tie for fourth place and owned a respectable 4-3 record, but, above all, it wouldn't have had to play Princeton...
...wouldn't mind," said the anxious housewife at the Atami station of Japan's National Railways, "except they were a New Year's gift from my husband and he will kill me if he finds they are missing. He will not believe what happened.'' An understanding man, the stationmaster wired ahead to Nagoya. Sure enough, in one of the empty cars, there were the black lace panties that the woman had been wearing until she was caught in the rib-crunching free-for-all involved in getting on and off a train in Japan...
...took out his 100-year-old handmade guitar (picked up in London for $112) and said he wanted to entertain the King of Thailand. He was invited to tea, where a group of high-ranking officials were stiffly collected. He started with some flamenco. Queen Sirikit asked if he wouldn't play something from his own country, like Danny Boy. He played Danny Boy as if it were a New London dairy air. The Thais loosened up and then went crazy for John Henry and Springfield Mountain. King Bhumibol could contain himself no longer. He produced his own saxophone...