Word: might
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Adams experiment looks like a good idea from every angle. All the Houses might well follow suit...
Sometimes they coalesced into moonlit mountains, houses or shadowy wild creatures, and sometimes not. One might question the communicative skill of Price's work, but never its integrity...
...lost his own identity. Like Singer Fran Allison, the only other human regularly on his show, he has been swallowed up by the puppet world he made. The world revolves around Kukla, a pinch-faced, sadly wise, sentimental puppet, and Ollie, a one-toothed dragon whose preenings and posturings might have been conceived by Moliére. It is also peopled by such types as Fletcher Rabbit, whose "mother was a suffragette, and who consequently takes a serious, rather cautious point of view and is a bit of a bore"; Beulah Witch, who was arrested for reckless broomstick driving...
...conserve its dollars, some thought that the sudden ban was really an attempt to freeze U.S. oil out of the sterling area for good. Some Congressmen from the oil states were already up in arms: ECA, which must go before Congress this month for more money, feared that they might force a cut, particularly since ECA itself had helped cause the sterling oil surplus. It was also a blow to the U.S. idea of freer world trade. Said one ECA oilman: "Everything that happens in international trade happens first to oil. If oil gets through this crisis, other commodities will...
...Magic Herbs. This hollow old stump of a plot might be enough for many a bestseller, but Novelist Goudge crams it with something more. She adores animals; so the book becomes an ark of cats, dogs, horses and oxen which almost outnumber the human population. She has a fondness for the supernatural; so the book is aclog with fairies, a white witch, magic herbs, and vervain brews. She cannot resist a legend, so several of them weave and wind in a fine confusion through the novel...