Word: might
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gave a $100-a-plate charity dinner for the Salvation Army at the Copacabana, eight judges, including Aurelio, a Congressman and all the top Tammany politicos turned up in dutiful droves. But the newspaper headlines that bloomed largely and blackly the next day had the same, exultant horror that might have been expected if he had spent the night plotting to cart off the City Hall...
...Paris agreement to work. (The Germans loved the word "negotiations"-it gave them a standing as a semi-sovereign nation which they had not known since the war.) Vast difficulties still remained, including the possibility that in this week's foreign-policy debate the French Assembly might try to whittle down the Paris decisions. But, as Konrad Adenauer put it, "The German Federal Republic has this day taken a great step forward...
...trading post at the same time. So far, the Chinese Communists have respected British power-and Hong Kong's usefulness to them as a source of supplies from the outside world. But in his mansion up on "The Peak," overlooking the colony, Sir Alexander admitted that the Reds might change their attitude. "They're working on a short-term basis now," said His Excellency. "When short term becomes long term, no one but China's Communists know...
...plush Hong Kong Hotel, British ladies & gentlemen in dinner jackets and evening gowns dance nightly to the strains of Strauss and U.S. jazz. But, said a colonial Colonel Blimp: "Before the war it was different. Now your No. 1 boy might be sitting next to you in the reserved section of one of Hong Kong's best theaters...
...hanging the assassin," said Gandhi's old newspaper Harijan, "there is something which positively takes away from the glory of the Mahatma . . . Granting of life to murderers . . . would be an act . . . of which only a government trained by Gandhi might dream of doing...