Word: might
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inspiration for Beatnik Gregory Corso's poem Bomb [Sept. 7] might well have been the oft-chanted Episcopal (Book of Common Prayer) Benedicite, omnia opera Domini...
...grandstand play, capitalizing mercilessly on the lurking fear of nuclear holocaust, Khrushchev's brash maneuver might win him some propaganda advantage with plain people around the world. And some U.S. officials continued to argue that Khrushchev genuinely wants some measure of disarmament, which would permit him to switch military manpower and funds into raising Soviet living standards. But in blasting off so crudely from his U.N. launching pad, Nikita had displayed a brute cynicism that repelled responsible statesmen everywhere. "It sounds so easy," said an Asian delegate to the U.N. "I think he must take us for morons...
...that, De Gaulle's imaginative proposals for the first time offered the world real reason to hope that the seemingly interminable struggle, which a year ago drove France itself to the verge of civil war, might be almost over. In Washington, Dwight Eisenhower spoke for millions in the Western world when he declared: "I am greatly encouraged by General de Gaulle's courageous and statesmanlike declaration . . . It is a plan that I think is worthy of General de Gaulle's efforts...
...with a specialist's knowledge of rarely seen symptoms could fake Podola's act. Podola, he said, was "normally sane with the exception of memory loss," was suffering from "hysterical amnesia," a condition which can be characterized by "unconscious suppression" of particular memories "due to emotional causes." Might this unconscious suppression "clear up next week?" asked Mr. Justice Davies. "I think not, my lord," replied Dr. Ed wards. "That must depend, I think, on how the loss of memory or regaining his memory is likely to affect his fate...
...convinced as the U.S. might be, there remained great doubt that the U.N. fact-finders would be able to document the charge of intervention in Laos to the satisfaction of the world's Foreign Offices, not a few of which would much prefer not to know what Peking and Communist North Viet Nam are up to in Laos. The chairman of the U.N. party, Japan's Shinichi Shibusawa, promised that the subcommittee would "go wherever it had to"-thus quashing earlier reports that the investigators would not stir out of Vientiane into the mysterious northern jungles where...