Word: might
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would sooner eat a bushel of cranberry products that might be contaminated than smoke a cigarette...
...U.S.S.R. could profitably agree on strategic forces "limited to retaliatory systems capable of surviving a first strike, though insufficient for employment in a first strike." If neither side built enough arms to wipe out the other's retaliatory power, argued the report, the world might reach a "high degree of nuclear stability," a real stalemate rather than one favoring the Russians over the next decade...
...asked if the birth-control controversy would hurt Kennedy's chances: "Why should it? It's a false issue so far as the presidency is concerned. They always get up false issues to break up the Democratic Party before a convention." But, on the hunch that "they" might have a point, his fellow members of the Advisory Council urged creation of a "National Peace Agency," which would study, among other things, "overpopulation, including acceptable methods of dealing with the problems of over-rapid population expansion...
...issued by the Soviet embassy in Washington: "The significance of this agreement goes beyond the limits of Antarctica and can be a good example for adopting similar decisions in respect to other regions of the globe." Australia's Ambassador Howard Beale raised the intriguing possibility that the treaty might serve as a model for another uninhabited, potentially disputed region: "the outer reaches of space...
...issue in the Senate. Elder and others feel that Johnson, with pressure on one side from the President and on the other side from the Democratic Advisory Council, may be ready to support repeal. If Johnson tries for the Democratic Presidential nomination, a definite stand against the NDEA affidavit might help him to win Northern liberal voters...