Word: might
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shertok's praise was explicable on two counts: i) Israel could afford to be generous with words, having got most of what it wanted; 2) Israel might, just possibly, want to make common cause with Egypt against a resurgence of British "imperialism" in the Middle East...
...Recent weeks have shown that Frenchmen can be lulled into thinking that, after all, there might be no disagreeable problem to solve. The drama of the French Communists, pointed up by the week's events, is this: that Western firmness compels Moscow to compel the French Reds to show their true colors. Strangely tragic -but not pitiable-figures, the French Communists are thereby forced to encompass their own destruction...
...probably could do the same thing to Perón, if the army chose to. At week's end, Buenos Aires sources reported that the President had already suggested that he resign, only to be told to stay where he was and see the trouble through. The army might fire a president when it was good & ready; last week army chiefs may have suspected that Perón would like to get out from under now, shift the blame to other shoulders, then brace himself for a smashing comeback in the next elections...
President Strand, who had explained nothing about La Vallee, now considered the case closed. Actually, so far as Oregon State was concerned, it might be. All question of the Spitzer and La Vallee cases apart, U.S. citizens could understand the right of a university administrator to fire a teacher for professional incompetence. Did Communist Party membership lead to that kind of incompetence-by imposing a party line where there should be freedom to inquire? That was a big issue in the Washington case. Now, it seemed, U.S. public opinion, which had never decided for sure what academic freedom consisted...
...trustees played safe by canceling Negro Graham's invitation to speak. According to one board member, there were rumors that some of the wealthier church members might withdraw their financial support if Graham appeared in the pulpit. "The only issue confronting the Miami Shores Community Church," said the board member, "is whether it can afford to have a minister who has caused a serious division in its membership...