Word: might
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...buck." Governor Long backed a constitutional amendment last November to bring the L.S.U. Board of Supervisors under his thumb. The amendment lost, but Louisiana recently began to hear, and read in newspaper columns, that the Supervisors themselves were set to bounce Harold Stoke. Then, went the story, L.S.U. might get a Louisiana man again as its president...
Some expressions that might have misled a listener in the early '40s, or sent him fruitlessly to the old Collegiate, are now so well known that people hardly need to look them up. But they are in now-ruptured duck, air sleeve, biological warfare, rocket engine, guided missile, jet propulsion and genocide...
Obviously, it was too good to last; in another month, opposing pitchers would know what to deal the upstarts to cool off their hitting. But by that time, Manager Stengel might be able to toss in DiMaggio and Keller. Last week, just eleven days after the season opened, "Old Case" announced: "This may be just a swallow. . . but I'm going to win the pennant...
...record as a street brawler. His first lawyer had withdrawn from the case. Morris Golding, the spectator who had helped to take Boysen to the hospital and called the lawyer, had revised his opinion: "I should have minded my own business. Boysen obviously wasn't hurt, but Durocher might be. I hope they patch this thing...
...room might have been any big-city political headquarters. On the wall hung a map bristling with red, blue and yellow pins. In one corner stood a Mimeograph. Pamphlets, posters and handbills littered the floor and tables, and two purposeful young women pounded energetically on typewriters. But the bald, cheerful man who presided over this well-ordered confusion last week wore a clerical collar. From his command post in an old brownstone mansion near London's Victoria Station, the Rev. Frank Cecil Tyler was directing the "Mission to London"-the biggest evangelical drive the Church of England had ever...