Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that our collective security efforts must be supported by cooperative economic action.* The present offers a challenging opportunity for improvement of trading conditions and the expansion of trade throughout the free world." In sum, the conference proposed taking the fullest advantage of an all-important fact: "The free nations possess vast assets, both material and moral. These, in the aggregate, are far greater than those of the Communist world...
...teacher, he may well lack that vivid excitement before fact or expression which is the basis of real communication. As a scholar, he may lack the means which a rigorous training in disciplines and techniques ought to have given him. If he knows that he does not possess the necessary tools with which a piece of work ought to be tackled, and that his training in form was so deficient that he cannot effectively put forward a valuable contribution, he will invent one or another reason for avoiding further efforts in scholarship. Or worse, if he does not recognize...
...immediate goal of the puppet governments was the separation of the children from their parents. This was essential if they were to fully possess the minds and spirits of the children and raise a dedicated, zealous generation of communists. The parents, having lived part of their lives in happier days before Hitler and war, infected with the democratic notion that man can live according to his own wishes and enjoy certain basic rights, could not be trusted to teach the new communist concepts to their children. Worse still, the parents might spread this infection to their children by exposing them...
...sunny Cape Canaveral, Fla., ready to blast off. (The U.S.'s first Atlas, launched last June, was blown up in midair by an electronic signal after a fuel-system failure.) Back of the Atlas several dozen ICBMs are coming out of production plants in the race to possess a whole armory of mass-produced, operational missiles. "We have the highest priority," said Air Force Missileman Major General Ben A. Schriever (TIME, April...
Pinfold clearly cannot take much more of this punishment; he begins to behave oddly in front of the other passengers and to send enigmatic messages to his wife. But he still struggles on against his ghostly tormentors, who possess "a huge but incomplete and wildly inaccurate dossier covering the whole of Mr. Pinfold's private life." Then, as suddenly as they began, the voices cease. He had been taking sleeping draughts, and when he stopped, the voices stopped...