Word: wouldn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...James Hammell, 14, a Philadelphia high school student who performed odd jobs for Weinstein, told police last week that he walked into the tobacco shop on the day of Green's disappearance and found him unconscious on the floor. "Weinstein wanted me to kill the boy but I wouldn't," said Hammell. Instead, they tried to revive him by holding spirits of ammonia under his nose and splashing him with apple cider. According to Hammell, Weinstein then poured the spirits of ammonia down Green's throat, causing him to go into convulsions...
...admitted that two of the three defendants had intercourse with the girl. But they contended that she had volunteered. According to John Giles's testimony, she said that she had had relations with "16 or 17 men that week and three more wouldn't make any difference." The jury had rejected that statement, but the committee's investigation of the girl turned up evidence of mental instability and promiscuity. What's more, it developed that the prosecutor was aware of some of that evidence. And though it could have had a bearing on the girl...
...openly hostile to the canvassers. "I believe that we're fighting for America, so that people like you will be free to hand out leaflets," said a patient old man in a straw hat and an old suit. But he would not take any of the leaflets. Wouldn't he just look at "What Six Military Leaders Say About Vietnam," you ask, handing him the shortest of the pamphlets...
...Young Artist," a weekly column which appeared in the ill-fated Avatar issue. When Robert Poppio, attorney for the Booksmith, argued that the whole issue had to be considered, Adlow replied, "Suppose the printer made a mistake and put this column in the middle of the Old Testament. Wouldn't you still judge it as obscene?" Adlow admitted that he hadn't read the whole issue. "That would be cruel and abusive punishment," he said...
...inside a wall of light industry. But even in these wards Smith was defeated by a Catholic candidate whose campaign tactics were to approach the local priest with a certain sum of money. New Orleans is ninety per cent Catholic. "I tried to speak to the priests but they wouldn't see me. They had obviously been told not to have anything to do with me," he sighed. "That's the kind of thing we're up against...