Word: might
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...government faced plenty of parliamentary fights with its enemies and with its own supporters; but that was not necessarily a cause for worry. In its first days, the new German legislature had behaved no more irresponsibly than any of the Continent's traditionally raucous parliaments; the Germans might get to learn the old parliamentary lesson of how to fight and still get the work done...
...protest against injustice, he wanted to be locked up with Jean Moreau, a young French conscientious objector whom the French police had recently jailed. The concierge was very sorry, but the director of the prison was not around; perhaps, if M. Davis came back the next morning, the director might accommodate...
...keep the museum going after her death in 1942. The Whitney never offered prizes, instead spent from $10,000 to $30,000 a year buying the pictures it liked. Up until her last illness, Juliana Force moved poker-backed and sharp-eyed among American artists, watching for someone who might make another Whitney "first...
...European of 1500, the sickness of the church might have been hard to perceive. Father Lortz points out that the church then seemed to be at the pinnacle of its strength. But, he writes, while "the facades were still standing," there was no longer "always life in the structures . . . Religious impotence was most unmistakable in the case of the higher clergy . . . Nor may we forget what a devastating effect such weaknesses . . . necessarily exert on the life of the whole community...
Statisticians poring over the reports found some cold comfort. This year's total, whatever it might be, could not be compared directly with the 1916 total of 30,000 cases, because the U.S. population has increased by about half in the meantime. Also, because so many milder cases are now properly diagnosed and reported, the proportion of crippling and fatal cases is far less. (The death rate among youngsters under 15 is now one-fifteenth the rate of the 1916 mortality...