Word: wouldn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pennsylvania's patrician ex-Governor William Scranton, however, is convinced that Evans' speech will make a more significant impact. Scranton, one of the Republicans whom Dan Evans admires most deeply, dropped him a note last week. "I bet him a buck that when he made his keynote speech there wouldn't be any big hoopla," recalled the Pennsylvanian. "I bet him that it would take the delegates a day?24 hours?to realize that he had much...
There is no reason that Hanoi "cannot find ways to let us know" of any conciliatory intentions, said Rusk. His point, while logical enough, served to close a gap that the U.S. had purposely left open in previous statements, which maintained that the North Vietnamese "wouldn't have to state" their moves toward deescalation. Johnson, moreover, spoke of "the chance that we will have to act promptly on additional military measures" in Viet Nam - a hint to some that the President was preparing for an increase in the fighting or bombing, perhaps even a final push to prove that...
...didn't have the money to go to England last summer. Or even if you did have enough money to go to England last summer you didn't have enough money left to take a taxi? Or more likely because you really aren't imaginative? If you were, you wouldn't be around this place...
...operator was very friendly, but refused to place the call unless we could give her an exact number. A conversation with her lasting thirty minutes produced the following information. 1) There was a number listed for a Mr. Billy Shears in London. 2) She knew what it was, but wouldn't tell us. 3) At that time there were approximately twenty calls placed every night to Billy Shears. 4) Some of the people placing calls gave the correct number. 5) Those calls that did get through heard only a recording which said something about the office being closed...
...science they have been doing wouldn't intrigue most Harvard science wonks, since it's primarily the sort of observational work that engaged nineteenth century researchers: ice, wildlife, weather, and ocean depth surveys, plus simple physical and psychological tests on the effects of their bleak environment. However, these elementary investigations are crucial to cold regions researchers whose limited data on this huge area so far has come chiefly from a few itinerant ice island stations maintained by the U.S. and U.S.S.R., and from an international ice observation study called Project Bird...