Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weapon, ammunition could also be registered and sold only to those with proper credentials. Such all-embracing registration would aid police in both detection and prevention of crimes. Finally, proponents of gun-law reform argue that, just as prospective drivers must undergo examinations, the applicant for a license to possess a gun should be required to pass a thorough written exam and a proficiency test in handling it. At present, no tests are given ?even for eyesight...
...claiming conscientious-objector status usually has a particularly hard time. Relatively few boards seem to know or care that the Supreme Court significantly broadened the qualifications three years ago. Now a man need only possess beliefs that prompt his objection to all wars and that "occupy the same place in his life as the belief in a traditional deity." But even if he knows how to raise that argument legally, home-town board members may well pay no attention because they think that such a test is much too easy...
...beat that so comforts and reassures. One-two-three-four. ONE-two-three-four ONE. The beat mimics the repetitions of daily dull lives--mimics them and calls them art. Get up-eat-work-sleep GET-UP and on and on giving our lives a dignity they don't possess. The beat is like the clock they give a kitten when they're taken away his mother, so he won't be scared. Where is the music of live souls, of people who live with the knowledge that no instant repeats? Where is the music of free...
...does not, under its new constitution, possess another goal of its organizers--formal student representation on Radcliffe administrative bodies, particularly, the Radcliffe College Council. The College Council had balked at approving an initial constitution that held such provision...
...surfeit of goods and gadgets. The gross national product this year will top $846 billion, and median family income is approaching $8,000 a year?about $2,000 more than that of the country with the next highest standard of living. Sweden. The accouterments of affluence are everywhere: Americans possess more than 60 million automobiles, 70 million television sets (10 million with color), $500 billion worth of common stock. At least two-thirds of U.S. families own their homes...