Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minds to go on and on at any cost, to reconquer Europe and destroy Hitler there, even with American man power-or turn back; and if we turn back we shall be remembered forever as the Falstaff nation of the world, boasting of a power it did not really possess. . . . In going on we face the possibility of defeat. . . . But to go back is to face the possibility of national death. . . . That is the reality as we see it; that is the reality we accept...
...under the title of Gems of Jazz--two albums which, taken as a whole, are examples of the hot style at its uninhibited, unrestricted best. Some of them have been known to draw grudging approval even from those Philistines who refuse to see anything in such music, for they possess a quality which transcends petty prejudices against the jazz idiom...
...Looking back upon the course of events, I can only feel ... if we had again to tread that stony path, even with the knowledge we possess today, I for one would do the same thing again. . . ." He promised to defend "to the death" Malta, Crete, Tobruch, the Suez and the Nile Valley...
...this force of U.S. resources and production that Adolf Hitler called on his people to face. For the first time he told them that the war might last beyond 1941. "If the German soldier already possesses the best weapons in the world, he will receive still better ones this year and next. . . . We are all obliged to assure that the lead which we now possess does not become smaller but rather increasingly bigger. This is not a problem of capital, but exclusively a problem of work. . . . Neither force of arms nor time will ever make us yield...
Cinemafans who had hoped for a peep at the off-stage life of Crooner Powell and wife, who have been married five years, possess two children, will have to wait. Their performance indicates that they are thoroughly accustomed to each other. Mother and Father Powell have 124 scenes together. In all but 15 they bicker...