Word: might
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...socks. There was an announcement that the New York Central would soon have ready for wilting and near-sighted New York commuters 100 air-conditioned cars with fluorescent lighting and improved couplings to soften the shock of frequent stopping & starting. The rubber companies were testing an automobile tire that might run for 75,000 miles...
...young lady asked me if in five years she might be an ambassador," he told them, "I couldn't make her any promises because that is a year or two beyond the time when my term will expire." But he told them to keep informed on the Government, and one of them might even have "this terrible job which I have . . . and you might get a chance to live over there in that great white jail, with the balcony and everything...
...lawyer. "The attorney laid a piece of paper before his client. Whenever he was asked an embrrassing question the lawyer tapped the paper and John looked down and read aloud from it: "I refuse to answer that question on advice of counsel, on the ground that my answer might tend to incriminate...
...That might be an answer to the Senators, but the House wasn't listening. Since the Senate wouldn't agree to a formal adjournment, the House had another out: it would simply start a series of three-day recesses, which require no Senate approval. For the next four weeks. Speaker Sam Rayburn announced, only a corporal's guard would need to stay in town-someone to act as Speaker, a functionary to parade the mace (which is the symbol of House authority), and someone to move adjournment every day after the journal has been approved...
Despite the alarm of the ordinary taxpayer, there was no guarantee that pension payments might not go right on-and up -in all three states. The old folks were a powerful people in the West...