Word: might
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...think I was treated unfairly," she said, and blamed her six-week detention on Ellis Island on a plot "to get even with my husband." But, she added magnanimously, "I won't hold it against the American people, whom I love and admire very much." In fact, she might even be back some day "if ever there's a government which will receive antiFascists as willingly as they accept Fascists...
...joined the Army in 1917, served through World War I in a San Francisco Army office. In 1922 he got a job as a state deputy corporation commissioner; it seemed that he might jog on through life as an inconspicuous public servant. But California's Governor Friend Richardson, impressed by his thoroughness, appointed him to the Superior Court bench. In twelve years as a judge his homely virtues and his obvious distress at civic corruption attracted the interest of Los Angeles reformers...
...most of the wild animals at Tokyo's Ueno Zoo were killed by their keepers who feared they might escape during air raids. Since then, visitors who daily flock to the zoo have had to content themselves with housecats, hogs, a Jersey cow, stuffed lions & tigers. The government has been deluged with children's pleas that real live wild animals, especially elephants, be restored to the Ueno Zoo, but exchange difficulties have made it practically impossible...
...Pontianak in Borneo, was not so sure of his countrymen's ability to check the Communist tide in Asia. "Communism," he said, "is the greatest danger for us here." The Sultan urged U.S. aid to help the U.S.I, to its feet; he indicated that for such aid America might well be permitted to have troops and bases in Indonesia...
...Games. From such macabre work, one might imagine Rose to be a hollow-eyed ascetic; actually he is a gay little blade whose 39 years have been a brilliant whirligig of international fun and games with such friends as Stein, Berard, Cecil Beaton, Louis Bromfield and the Wellington Koos. Rose spent five years studying Chinese art and poetry in China, hurried home to join the R.A.F. in 1939. Married to British Novelist Dorothy Carrington, he now sticks reasonably close to his Chelsea studio...