Word: might
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...filibuster droned on, effective without being exhausting, Administration leaders had two choices: to continue the fight which they now might very well lose, or give up the civil rights program and get on as best they could with the rest of Harry Truman's legislation...
When the Council discussed a food survey with Dean Bender in December, he said that the University "might order a study" if the Council poll presented solid basis for the feeling that something was wrong. Reynolds, it was learned, told the Council on Wednesday that he did not believe that the purpose of the poll was to indicate undergraduate desire for a survey of the dining halls...
Reynolds told the Council that the question which resulted in a four to one demand for a dining halls survey was much too general, it was reported. He claimed that a survey might make suggestions that would improve food, but would also raise the board rate. The two to one majority that favored improved food to lower cost only indicates that students want better meals, Reynolds added...
...Mhyrum as Roderigo, "the peon's amigo," Nick Benton as Roxanne Rye, and Palmer Dixon's leering portrayal of Fingers Spumoni carry the scenes where the script itself might not sustain a non-musical interlude; but it remained for Fred Gwynne, cast as Pablo the Peon, to stop the show...
...local country-club greens are going to be green again, and the recent mobs of skiers will metamorphize into knickered golfers, for it is the season when "every clod feels a stir of might, an instinct within it that reaches and towers, groping blindly above for light...