Word: wouldn
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...determination. Now Clinton was holding serious discussions about ground troops, a possibility Milosevic thought had been safely discarded. Perhaps most critical of all, the Hague war-crimes tribunal finally indicted him on May 27, placing his very life in jeopardy if he ever slipped from power. "He recognized he wouldn't prevail," says a U.S. official, and began to put out peace feelers...
...pushed us. It's hard to imagine where women would be without her. Ruth put substance over style. She was fearless, solid, unwavering. There wasn't a phony bone on her regal Katharine Hepburnesque frame. She never underestimated women's intelligence, regularly publishing articles most women's magazines wouldn't touch, from "The Racism of Well-Meaning White People" to "Inside Tailhook: From the Woman Who Changed the Navy." One of the first things Ruth did at Glamour was change the annual college competition from the best dressed to the most accomplished, to focus on women's achievements, not their...
...white man in this country who can say he never benefited from being white," Marshall said. He could be bitingly acerbic, falling into slave dialect and calling the other Justices "Massa." In 1980, when the University of Maryland Law School dedicated its new library to him, Marshall wouldn't attend the ceremony. The school was just "trying to salve its conscience for excluding the Negroes," he said. As the court grew colder to civil rights, he did little to hide his bitterness. In one of his last opinions before his retirement in 1991, Marshall complained that "power not reason...
...wouldn't be too sure. I suspect that the young of the world grasp that the man whose poster beckons from their walls cannot be that irrelevant, this secular saint ready to die because he could not tolerate a world where los pobres de la tierra, the displaced and dislocated of history, would be eternally relegated to its vast margins...
SECRETARIAT How can a horse be influential? If in 1973 you saw the big chestnut colt win the first Triple Crown in 25 years by 31 incomprehensible lengths, and if you realized that in appearance, style and disposition he was the Platonic ideal of the athlete, you wouldn't argue the point. His influence is this: Secretariat is the standard against which every other Thoroughbred must be measured...