Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wards, scores of whites are arming themselves-with scant discouragement from the police-and forming white vigilante gangs "to repel an invasion." Led by Contractor Anthony Imperiale, who deeply fears new and worse conflagrations in Newark, the vigilantes now prowl the city in "Jungle Cruisers," and are said to possess an arsenal of 1,000 rifles, an armored car and five helicopters...
...example, tells Kahlenberg that he knows a private collector with a 16mm print of Air Mail. Although Air Mail is legally owned either by Universal, or Ford and his producer, it has slipped into one of the hundreds of excellent underground collections of films throughout the country: collections which possess all of Chaplin's features, and such classics as Murnau's Tabu, Rosselini's Paisan, complete versions of Fritz Lang's first Doctor Mabuse, and early films by Jean Renoir, to name some of the most popular items in the underground market...
...Saigon, there lived a willful wife who had long refused to let her husband indulge his fancy to possess a prize nightingale. But after the Viet Cong attacked the city, bringing destruction and frightening the people, she took her savings and went to the bird market. There she bought the best rossignol to be had. Returning home, she then presented this symbol of love to her surprised husband with the words: "I have denied you in the past, dear husband, but now that we have no future, we must live for today...
...just come off fasting for the end of the 100 Years' War. Lori Heineman, a sophomore Cliffie, is quite lovely and quite accomplished; I guess she'll have to fake it on her hour exams this semester. Ken Tigar, a tutor in German here, Paul Jones, and Fred Grandy, possess adaptable faces, voices, and dispositions. Grandy makes good use of his eyelids of all things. Joe Saah mugs too much behind the bass. John Forster is excellent at the piano and does the Bernstein bit well...
...negotiate," although elsewhere Soviet-American diplomacy-which may yet prove the key to any meaningful negotiations over Viet Nam-was more fruitful. The two nations finally agreed on the full text of a draft treaty to prohibit the spread of nuclear weapons to nations that do not yet possess them...