Word: wouldn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That exploratory phone call, of course, is no guarantee of accuracy. New York magazine inquired whether I had reviewed a manuscript for possible serialization in TIME. Yes, I had; no, we wouldn't. But the item relating this routine transaction attributed a direct quote to me ostensibly delivered to "colleagues." The remark, never uttered, was not checked either with me or with the editor to whom I had reported. Later, the New York Times Book Review picked up the unfounded quote. The news section of the same Sunday edition carried an editors' note pointing out that the original gossip-page...
...diplomatic relations since the Six-Day War in 1967. Better weather seems to be on the way. Shimon Peres, Israel's Finance Minister and leader of the Labor Party, has tentatively accepted a Soviet invitation to visit Moscow. Said a Western diplomat in the Soviet capital: "I wouldn't be surprised if diplomatic relations are restored within the next year...
...second game, Kasparov explained he wanted to create a new opening that the computer wouldn't be able to break down...
...utmost seriousness. He practices religiously -- up to two hours a day -- usually in the bedroom of his two-story Fifth Avenue penthouse. But even when he's working on location, he makes time for the horn. "There have been times when I would film all day long and wouldn't get to my hotel room until 10:30 at night," he says. "So I would get into bed and pull the quilt over my head so I wouldn't offend the neighbors." Missing a single day's practice, says Woody, makes him feel "absolutely consumed with guilt. You know...
...wouldn't want to be General Manuel Noriega the next time George Bush gets a bead on him. For reasons having more to do with random events and petty frustration than with any rational calculus of relative evil and threat to the nation, the pit-faced Panamanian dictator is now U.S. Public Enemy No. 1. Our top foreign policy goal, for the moment, is to wipe him out. Nothing would add more to the nation's pursuit of happiness. Even those liberal Democrats who would want six months of hearings before responding to a nuclear attack are screaming for blood...