Word: wouldn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mike Royko, Chicago Sun-Times columnist, accepting the role of a crooked alderman in a TV film: "Never having seen an honest alderman, I wouldn't know how to play...
...thought she was losing people's attention. Weary of the vertiginous heights of the merely abstract, she decided to provide everyone with a small object lesson: she inclined her head towards me and said pointedly in voice too loud for the tiny room, "And you for example, your people wouldn't have been able to come to Harvard three or four generations ago..." The less sophisticated members of the group couldn't resist the impulse to turn and look at me, the only black in a room of fifteen people. I found myself suddenly developing an obsessive interest...
AGAIN, AS in my encounter with the writer, I wouldn't have been so upset had I not admired him so much. Everytime something like this happens, and it has happened many times, I am shocked, and then in turn I am shocked at my shock. In retrospect my reactions have been masterpieces of naivete. Admittedly, it happens less often nowadays, as I have become harder, more distrustful and more self-protective. Very few people can drive me to near tears with frustration. Not the blatant bigots, to whom I am at best a "little black girl," at worst...
Stewart added that "I can say for sure, though, that if there had been two outs when I had two strikes on the next guy (Shepard), I certainly wouldn't have thrown the curve ball to him, like I did with one out." "The curve ball" turned out to be the wild pitch...
...Wouldn't it be pretty to think...