Word: might
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when Haigh was formally charged with Mrs. Durand-Deacon's murder last month, the stories were toned down in conformance with law and immemorial British journalistic practice. Once a person has been charged with a crime, English law prohibits publication of evidence that might prejudice a fair trial for the accused...
...They might have destroyed it except that: 1) the hotel is government-owned and its murals cannot be altered without approval of the three-man committee on mural paintings; 2) the committee consists of Siqueiros, Orozco and Rivera...
...undertaker [of the Revolution] ... At eight o'clock in the morning we entered the offices of the Central Committee. I glanced at my fellow guests. Smirking with satisfaction, drooling with superiority, a look of pre-eminence over all other mortals . . . plastered on their faces, they might have been entering Paradise . . . Suddenly a peanut-shaped head, surmounted by a military haircut and decked off with a magnificent pair of long moustaches, rose above them . . . one hand slipped into his overcoat and the other folded behind him, a la Napoleon . . . Comrade Stalin stood posed before the saints and worshippers...
Rivera himself considers it his best mural. Critics could agree in placing it among the best-integrated and liveliest in color of Rivera's paintings, but they might reasonably complain that it takes the maestro himself to even begin to tell what it is all about...
...professors had no reason to worry: the questionnaires were still experimental. But by next year, they would be a major factor in deciding faculty promotions. A bad grade year after year might well lead to dismissal. Did that mean even Michigan's most cherished scholars? Said Dean Lloyd S. Woodburne: "If a man is a brilliant scholar, he must be a passable teacher. If a brilliant teacher, he must be a passable scholar." If he is all of one and none of the other, Michigan will want him no longer...