Word: possess
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...very hard to get people interested in a game hey've never played extensively before," says Lee, noting the talents the club's membership possess. "The rules are very simple, but it takes considerable time to master," he adds...
...every physician knows the difference "between prolonging the act of dying and protecting the act of living," as Surgeon General Koop asserts, is fallacious. As a registered nurse, I have come in contact with doctors who could not perceive the difference because the choice is not always clear. Physicians possess no more of the godlike qualities than the rest...
...poisonous, a view shared by the Chinese--who had carved a snake coiled around a rod from hemp stalks since the time of Shen Nung, legendary" father of medicine Queen Victoria's personal physician came to view cannabis as "one of the most valuable medicines that we possess," and brought new understanding to its widespread use in the East as a tonic and relaxant herb by declaring it to be the remedy of choice for a certain class of functional neurological disorders. He and other physicians of the time recommended it for both the cure and the prevention of migraine...
...United States had nuclear weapons, we had to acquire them. They had the means to deliver nuclear weapons. We did not possess such means we had to develop them. The same is true of practically all major strategic weapons systems SLBMs, MIRVs, cruise missiles etc... The Americans were the first to introduce them for the us to follow suit...
...wished to use such propaganda to legitimize the colonization, enslavement, and general inhumane treatment of these very some people. Africa and African cultures have been under attack ever since slavery made it essential that large groups of people actually believed that the enslaved Africans were too uncivilized to possess the "right" or the desire to have their own freedom, just as very similar images of savagery were being used to justify the many genocidal acts committed against Native Americans during these same periods of time. The Lampoon's depictions of what looked like less-than-human savages were no better...