Word: might
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only to 1947's record 1,068,048,000 bu. With good weather and a probable 325-million-bu. carryover from the 1948 crop, the U.S. would be up to its ears in wheat by summer. What with good crops and lower prices, the Bureau predicted, farm income might drop 10% below last year's record of $31 billion...
Bello had not been in a rage, he might not have demanded that the impresario get the finest bulls in Mexico for him and his brother Pepe to fight...
...this, Churchill's diplomacy is a superb combination of tact and inexorable firmness. While never forgetful of the President's constitutional limitations, Churchill also never forgets that such limitations might well prove fatal. "The President should bear . . . very clearly in mind," he instructs British Ambassador Lord-Lothian, that the U.S. cannot afford "any complacent assumption . . . that they will pick up the debris of the British Empire . . ." His own remarks to Roosevelt are sometimes genially humble ("I am so grateful to you for all the trouble you have been taking . . ."), sometimes confidently flattering ("I am sure that, with your...
...number of things might have changed the course of the corrida at Cuenca on Saint Barbara's Day. For example, if Eladio Gomez, tight-fisted impresario of the little Mexican bull ring, had not taken a second tequila one morning he might never have signed up Luis Bello, the famous and expensive matador. If Matador...
...Write may wish that Tarkington had been around to discuss it with Roberts. He almost certainly would have cut out the ten-page list of people to whom Roberts wrote letters in 1935, together with the scores of pages of now-dull journeyman journalism reprinted here in full. He might even have suggested, as Roberts' publisher should have, that I Wanted to Write should be quietly put away in an old trunk...