Word: wouldn
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...current state of the economy, and Economic Correspondent George Taber, who interviewed Administration policymakers. Taber also compiled background on Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal and found that "it's impossible to spend more than five minutes around the man and not call him Mike. Mr. Secretary just wouldn't sound right." In addition to conducting interviews at the Treasury, Taber spent some time in Blumenthal's limousine, chatting with the Secretary as he went from one meeting to another. In the course of those drives, Taber learned that in Secret Service lingo, Blumenthal is known as "Fencing Master...
...general feeling has been to incorporate their efforts and use them as best we could," he says, adding, "We clearly wouldn't do it if we did not think they were helpful...
Young says he has also received "lots of complaints from guidance counselors about the ineptitude of student recruiters. One guidance counselor even told me that he wouldn't permit 'incompetent' students to recruit in his school any more...
...close friends in Washington and never takes a vacation. Says he: "I wouldn't enjoy going away and doing nothing." His scant leisure time is spent with his wife, watching TV news and interview programs. Erma, also an energetic worker, enjoys visiting their two married daughters in the Washington area and fussing over her six grandchildren...
...vain. Inevitable, inexorable, creeps forward the tide of men's despair in this petty world of fact ("There was a flood in Boston in 1835, maybe there will be again"). And all will be in vain, gurp, forever ("If it was 1835 I wouldn't have to go on the unicycle to Revere Beach, I could drown in my rooms...