Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problem is that the routine is deceptive, to those inside it as well as those outside. Most guidance counsellors and alumni are well acquainted with Harvard's own summary of its admissions policy: roughly 15 per cent of every entering class are "really brilliant students who appear to possess sound character and personality"; the rest, given adequate academic ability, are accepted on the basis of an incredible variety of factors ranging from "rural or small-town background" to "concern for the public good...
...strong battering." One expression of this point of view is that the Volunteer tends to see the solution to his problems in technical terms: he feels he needs better training, more modern textbooks, abler support from the Peace Corps staff, or special skills he doesn't now possess...
...treasure Boston's City Fathers may imagine themselves to be doubling they are, in fact, destroying; for whatever force Mr. Johnson's building may possess, or the older one alongside it, will be utterly done away with by the presence of its neighbor...
...nightmare of diplomats is a vision of dozens of countries of every size and temperament in possession of the nuclear bomb. This nightmare haunts the U.S. and the Soviet Union most of all, since together they have the overwhelming majority of the weapons and an acute realization of the unimaginable destruction that they could work. In recent months the two nations have put together a draft treaty that would limit nuclear weapons to countries that already have them and ask all others to forgo an atomic arsenal. Last week, as the diplomats of 18 nations gathered in Geneva to discuss...
Ultimate adoptation of the new system would rest with the organizations themselves, since most of them possess a considerable degree of sutonomy...