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Word: wouldn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this has happened despite the objections of highly-respected dolphin trainers over the feasibility of the program. Indeed, Flipper's trainer Ric O'Barry, while admitting that dolphins are highly intelligent, added that they are also highly disobedient and unpredictable. O'Barry notes, "[Let's just say] I wouldn't want them guarding half our nuclear arsenal...

Author: By Bill Tsingos, | Title: Flipper Joins the Navy | 4/11/1989 | See Source »

...wouldn't have received us. You only know how to swing billy clubs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAMBOV: PERESTROIKA IN THE PROVINCES | 4/10/1989 | See Source »

...longer I listened, the more amazed I was that this conversation was even taking place. Could you have imagined it ten, five, even three years ago! Who would have met with them for a talk? Wouldn't it have been officials from the local...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAMBOV: PERESTROIKA IN THE PROVINCES | 4/10/1989 | See Source »

Recently a lot of people have asked me, Wouldn't you like to go back and live again in the Soviet Union? After all, now they're rebuilding the society, they've published Doctor Zhivago, they don't arrest people anymore under Article 70 (for "anti-Soviet propaganda and agitation"), and the conscience of Russia, academician Sakharov, is practically a member of the government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Would I Move Back? | 4/10/1989 | See Source »

...forms -- much more durable and solid than the Parthenon. And the legitimate question arises: Do pyramids lend themselves to perestroika? It would be possible, of course, to adorn them with decorative colonnades, to cover them with molding, to suspend Greek porticoes on them. But would these changes enhance them? Wouldn't they spoil the fundamental style and profile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Would I Move Back? | 4/10/1989 | See Source »

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