Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unfortunately, neither front seemed to possess the decisive magic. Though without bloodshed the result was essentially the same as last time: another deadlock. The Nationalists won one seat less than the Afro-Shirazis, but the People's Party's six seats were enough to keep the Nationalist coalition in control (18-13) of the expanded legislature...
...craving for music seems to possess the U.S. in the summertime. From coast to coast, Americans brave torrential downpours, smoggy traffic jams, cement seats, grass stains and mosquitoes to get within the sound of music. They seek it out in bosky glens and canopied pavilions, up on mountaintops and down in gulches, in abandoned cow pastures and deserted mining towns, on a riverbank beside a barge and in the middle of a city...
None of these "explanations" would satisfy Harvard College, or any of the other branches of Harvard University. If the Summer School is serious about them, its contempt for its students is enormous. In the eyes of the administration, Summer School students possess so little intelligence that they are incapable of benefiting from free discussion of public issues; the only activities suitable for them are Yard punches and mixer dances. In addition, the Summer School underestimates its own faculty when it claims that the menace of "unrepresentative" opinions comes only from outside the University. There are enough faculty members with controversial...
...upon me without warning a horrible fear of my own existence. There arose in my mind the image of an epileptic patient whom I had seen in the asylum, a black-haired youth with greenish skin, looking absolutely nonhuman. That shape am I, I felt, potentially. Nothing that I possess can defend me against that fate if the hour for it should strike for me as it struck for him. I became a mass of quivering fear. I remember wondering how other people could live, how I myself had ever lived, so unconscious of that pit of insecurity beneath...
Master Jowett disdained "all persons who do not succeed in the world," exhorted Balliol men to do or die the empire over. "Never apologize, never explain," Jowett advised one viceroy-designate in a famous aphorism. "Do you possess the art of picking other people's brains?" he asked another. "This is a great shortening of labor and saves many mistakes." Viewing his office as one of the kingdom's greatest, which it still is, Jowett once found something "offensive to God and highly displeasing to me." No friend of doubters, Jowett is supposed to have warned...