Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...folly of unrestrained nationalism, they demanded political unification. Sparkplugged by France's Jean Monnet, the intense, brilliant economist who heads the Action Committee for a United States of Europe, they planned to construct united Europe through a series of economic, political and military bodies, each of which would possess supranational powers in a limited field...
...governments of the U.S.A., Great Britain and France still cannot give up the idea that the Big Four allegedly possess some magic power to unite Germany . . . But why should this question be decided by anyone but the Germans themselves...
There is a strong scent of social science in Venice West, and Lipton relates that all beatniks possess paperback editions of Margaret Mead. Love among the far out is casual and kaleidosexual, but just as among the savages of Samoa, there is a code. Said one beard, explaining why he rejected a girl's advances: "At the time, I was going with my wife." Beatniks prefer not to work, and when forced to, try to find employment suitable to their talents -such as deodorant testing for cosmetics firms. Shoplifting is only a stopgap...
Nehru's attitude toward the recent events in Tibet is flagrant contempt for democracy [TIME, April 20]. You simply do not possess a true love for democracy and brush aside the mass propulsion of Tibetan people into slavery by casually and apathetically remarking, "We do not wish to aggravate the situation." There is no need for Communism to force itself into Asia, for with the sympathetic indifference of men such as Nehru, Asia will be Communist without a shot being fired...
...disappointment. But, as with many such wonders, the anticipation was somewhat more exciting than the actuality. In the initial performances at least, the visitors demonstrated a technique linked to a floridly Victorian style that was frozen on pointe some 30 years ago-though in Galina Ulanova, they possess a prima ballerina who is still a true wonder of her time...