Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Armed Might. In Highland Park, Mich., police arrested Francis Vivian and took away his arsenal: a long-bladed knife, a blackjack, bow & arrows...
...extra allowance which Congress had voted for the Air Force could wreck the internal balance of the defense family, said the President, and it might wreck the balance he had long sought between military security and the strain on the domestic economy. It wasn't so much the down payment, he went on, it was the upkeep. In succeeding years the extra planes would demand a larger & larger share of the budget as they required personnel, housekeeping and maintenance. "I am, therefore, directing the Secretary of Defense to place [the $615 million] in reserve," the President announced...
Secretary of State Acheson sat down before his news conference last week, calmly slipped on his spectacles and read the riot act to two foreign nations in terms that might have been fighting words in the old days of hanky-pank diplomacy...
Most of the University's investments, normal or unusual, turn out well. Once in a while something goes wrong. Harvard today has 3276 shares in the National Fireproofing Corporation. They might as well be burned up, for their total value is listed at a nominal one dollar...
...customers. All a driver's protection comes from two pipe braces, which criss-cross over the driver's head and keep the roof from caving in when a car overturns. Except for the windshield, there is no glass in the form of windows or headlights which might shatter in case of collision. The driver is equipped with an aviation-type safety belt and a football headgear or crash helmet...