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Word: possessed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lions possess one of the top deep men of the Ivy League in Captain Hovard Hansen. Not only is the stocky Hansen hard to stop a: the line--he gained 571 yards last year--but he is a good man in the open field, too. He led the Lion scoring with 56 points, and gained 161 yards on the 12 passes he caught...

Author: By Hiller B. Zobel, | Title: Columbia to Field Veteran Squad Today | 10/6/1951 | See Source »

...Jayewardene, a slim, soft-spoken man with a razor-like tongue. It was interesting, said Jayewardene, that Russia wanted to "insure the people of Japan the fundamental freedoms of expression, of press, religious worship-freedoms," he added acidly, "which the people of the Soviet Union would clearly love to possess and enjoy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: Russian Rout | 9/17/1951 | See Source »

...feared that the move would pinch them still more. "CMP is an impossible and ill-starred undertaking," said Ford Vice President Irving A. Duffy. "Who can judge how much steel should be allocated for manufacturing hairpins, bobby pins, ash cans and thousands of other civilian items? Who can possibly possess the Solomon-like judgment to allocate materials fairly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: CMP for Civilian Goods | 8/20/1951 | See Source »

Fleischmann indicated he felt his agencies possess enough power for their job, legislation the Office of Economic Stabilization must enforce. He said present but Sommers was not satisfied with the laws will force at least a five to seven percent price increase within the next year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Last Summer Conference Features Mobilization and National Security | 8/2/1951 | See Source »

...except a pacifist or partisan of the Kremlin," explains Bevan, "would argue that military strength is not needed to deter the rulers of Soviet Russia." But rearmament is proceeding too rapidly and may spoil the chances of a peaceful settlement. "In 1953 . . . the Americans will possess a dominance in armed strength . . . greater than that which was ever possessed by any other country in peacetime. It is not unknown for a giant to wish to use his strength, even though he is not attacked." Few Britons, except the editors of the Daily Worker and Bevan's followers, had anything good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Nye's Way | 7/23/1951 | See Source »

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