Word: possess
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess," Winston Churchill once remarked, "and there are few mistakes they have ever avoided." To an extraordinary degree, Lech Walesa embodies the Polish virtues of courage, faith, patriotism, spontaneity. But neither he, nor his lieutenants, nor the men who ruled the country were able to avoid the errors that finally led to tragedy. They were unable to reach a compromise to save the "renewal" that they all claimed to have wanted...
Since 1976, the U.S. Catholic hierarchy as a whole has opposed both the use of nukes and any threat to fire them, but the bishops are divided on whether it is moral even to possess them as part of a deterrent strategy. In his Christmas message to Catholic military chaplains, Terence Cardinal Cooke of New York stated that deterrence was not satisfactory or safe, but could be considered morally "tolerable," so long as the U.S. seeks disarmament in good faith. But that once commonplace view is now being questioned. The Cardinal's talk drew immediate criticism...
...with man because he appeals to the cat's suppressed childishness. Kittens raised by humans associate man with suckling, warmth, mother's milk and childhood learning play. While the adult feline is obsessed with reproduction, territorial battles and mousing, we remain large toys and surrogate mothers who possess such miracles as wall can openers, crinkly cellophane and electric blankets. Nor do cats, like Kliban's cartoon meat-loaves, respond with interest to human grownup preoccupations. They pay no mind to politics, opera, opinion polls, fuel-stingy autos or nuclear proliferation. They remain unimpressed by est, Kiwanis, cocaine...
Stressing that it is more important to "build up a treasury of spirit than a treasury of wealth." Mexican scholar and writer Juan Negrin said last night the Huichol Indians of northwest Mexico possess a "nearly ideal" non-materialistic culture...
Quite the contrary. People, even when hoarse, tend to discourse clearly and repetitiously about the common cold. Cold victims routinely elucidate their suffering; those who are ordinarily laconic grow voluble, and the normally gabby become windy, lugubrious. With or without colds, people eagerly pass around whatever they possess of society's huge accumulation of folklore on the subject. (Benjamin Franklin was an archetypal expert on avoiding colds...