Word: might
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps if Mr. Kintner spent less time crouching before sponsors, he might not "find it difficult to be philosophical." Possibly he would discover a first principle to give desperately needed direction and purpose to the headless monster...
After all the deceptions sponsored by Revlon, Mr. Charles Haskell Revson might have been flabbergasted, or again he might not. At any rate, I would expect so colorful a character to admit to something more exotic...
...strongest Roman Catholic presidential hopeful since Alfred E. Smith, Massachusetts' Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy well knew that the issue of religion might hurt him in 1960 as it hurt "the Happy Warrior" in 1928. Consequently, out of a shrewd sense of political necessity, Candidate Kennedy provoked discussion of his Catholicism months ago, got accustomed to facing blunt questions with plain answers, and managed to run his fleet-footed political race with remarkably little religious heckling. But last week Kennedy found himself caught in a Catholic-Protestant clerical crossfire on the incendiary issue of birth control. And before the week...
...Soviet embassy spread the word that the cuisine and cellar were excellent. Mme. Vinogradov, an amateur painter herself, began encouraging young French artists to drop around, even abstractionists, whose decadent works would never find favor in Moscow. And soon columnists were speculating on which London tailor the ambassador might be patronizing...
...years, Francesco appeared nightly under her window, plaintively calling her name. He spent daylight hours in a nearby café, waiting for a glimpse of her. He followed her to the movies and sat behind her. His friends became worried that desperate Francesco might do something foolish, and begged Angela to accept him. "I'll marry whom I like," she said...