Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Said Douglas: "I regret that I do not possess the art of planned and spontaneous irrelevance which is so charming a characteristic of my junior colleague. Nor can I perform his acts of sorcery and necromancy which, in soaring far beyond logic, disguise an assault upon our political system as a mere amendment to an act to encourage junior league baseball." Douglas charged Dirksen with "deception," with introducing "an awesome and abominable proposal," with trying to give "the rotten-borough legislatures now in operation the power of self-perpetuation," with "sounding the false alarm that the Supreme Court had created...
...Chinese are currently laying the foundations of insurgency in northeast Thailand. Among primitive hill tribes such as the Lahu, Peking has sent native cadres trained in China to spread the word of a new messiah. One savior is already at work among the Lahu, claiming to possess a "magic hammer, magic rope and magic knife" with which he can kill all enemies, even if they number "as many as the sesame seeds in three baskets." Peking's most formidable source of subversion is the 15 million "overseas" Chinese, who dominate much of the trade and commerce of non-Communist...
...gimmickry. In the midst of so much frenzy, nothing can really happen, and the dialogue is whipped off at a tommy-gun clip in accents that challenge comprehension anywhere west of Land's End. Only Actress Tushingham and Michael Crawford, in his moments with her, ever truly possess The Knack...
...including "nationhood" as an "inextricable" component of "Jewishness," TIME gave wider circulation to the erroneous claims that Jews automatically-by virtue of their religion-possess a second nationality...
...more different men could hardly be imagined. There was Charles de Gaulle, soldier, statesman, and symbol of a nation's pride, who once wrote that a great leader must "possess something indefinable, mysterious." And there was Hubert Horatio Humphrey, the boy from the drug store in Huron, S. Dak., who likes to say that a politician must "never forget he's just one of the folks." Yet in their meeting last week amid the Louis XV antiques of Paris' Elysee Palace, the French President and the U.S. Vice President got on quite nicely together...