Word: might
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last year the opera had finished with a $119,000 deficit. "Without Flagstad," said an opera board member, "we might lose...
...both the Chicago Tribune and the New York Dotty News. Under Cissy's will, the stock was part of her residual estate, earmarked for such charities as Chicago's Children's Home and Aid Society and the Cradle Society. But it looked as if the stock might have to be sold to help pay inheritance and estate taxes. That posed for Colonel McCormick the horrible prospect of acquiring some minority, but possibly strange and unfriendly, partners. He began dickering to buy the stock...
Meighan is not at all frightened by the thought that a whole new crop of folksy announcers, all dropping their final g's, might be as unbearable as the current school of insincere supersalesmen. "On the contrary," Meighan says briskly. "That would be the millennium...
...entertainment trade magazine Variety, a little dizzy from watching the industry spin, saw still another possibility: the public might say "aw-nuts to the whole thing and [go] back to just playing the radio...
...favorable answer came from Oslo, the board might relent. Then, said one perverse opera-lover, "I just hope she throws it back in their teeth . . . and says she won't come...