Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their growing belief in an eventual Communist takeover of all Asia, shaking hitherto staunch anti-Communists in their resolve-and giving other nations nuclear ideas. Thanks mostly to technology supplied by the U.S., a dozen or more countries-among them Egypt, Israel, India, Japan, West Germany and Mexico-possess reactors capable of producing uranium or plutonium. The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission estimates that nowadays, for an investment of $50 million, a country can establish enough plutonium production to manufacture one crude weapon a year. Communist China's example, as President Johnson puts it, "tempts other states to equal folly...
Though Keating lacks electricity, he does possess a certain warmth that wins respect. He almost always wears a huge smile. But not infrequently, he stops to listen to a complaint or a request; then, with his hand clasping his petitioner's, the smile leaves his face and he listens intently. When the quick tete-a-tete is finished, he moves on and his face lights up once again...
Selecting an image or posture for himself, sometimes radically different from his high school "personality," he tries to gain Harvard status by imitating the mannerisms of those he feels already possess it. So one middle-class boy, who learned of "good society" at Exeter affects an exaggerated prep school accent and dress, and cultivates an effete sneer and slightly effeminate mannerisms. By his senior year he has risen as high in the clubbie world as one may without actually coming from a "good family...
...late 1960's or early 1970's, he believes that the Chinese will have perfected a medium range missle with a radius of about 1000 miles. Halperin, who is finishing a book, China and the Bomb, does not believe that the Red Chinese will possess significant intercontinental capabilities for another 10 to 15 years...
...panelists emphasized the complexity of life in the nuclear age, and the necessity that our president possess "qualities of leadership and judgement." They spoke in paragraphs, and for the most part made their points by anecdote or implication, understating those conclusions they drew...