Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This does not explain Nigeria's problem. The rival tribes clearly need each other. The Ibos, one of Africa's most progressive tribes possess skills essential to Nigeria's economy. But their over-populated Eastern homeland has neither the room nor the resources to accommodate its volatile and aggressive people...
...hate, fraternity or murder. The same hereditary material, pooled by the same man and woman in the act of reproduction, can produce children who do not much resemble either their parents or one another. Even identical twins, issuing from the same egg, can vary; for instance, they never possess identical fingerprints or dispositions...
...race's superiority over another must necessarily be made on nonbiological lines. With only a few dissenting votes, the world of anthropology has swung in this direction. "The peoples of the world today," concluded delegates to a world meeting of ethnologists and anthropologists in 1964, "appear to possess equal biological potentialities for attaining any civilizational level. Differences in the achievements of different peoples must be attributed solely to their cultural history...
...Harvey and Haliday turn the moviehouse-coffee house which they started in 1953 into the boutique empire which they possess in 1967? Largely by filling their movie house with movies which they themselves imported. Their company, Janus Films, was the first to import Fellini, Antonioni, and Bergman. Last year, they sold Janus Films (for quite a handsome profit) partly because they were being squeezed out by the big companies, and partly because buying films was "an ulcer business." "You had to make your decision two minutes after you saw the film, and you never knew whether it would...
...that because the students spend their semester at Wellmet in an atmosphere of real tragedy they are forced to draw upon their own deepest experiences to respond to and exercise judgment on residents. The responsibility is similar to that of determining the fate of a family member. "Certainly they possess idealism and altruism," she says, "but their most striking characteristic is a belief that they can find answers themselves. They do. They get back tenfold what they give...