Word: possessions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...break as abrupt and final as that of Britain from peace to war, Novelist Waugh begins the more obviously earnest part of his book. "My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of wartime. These memories, which are my life-for we possess nothing certainly except the past-were always with me. . . . These memories are the memorials and pledges of the vital hours of a lifetime. These hours of afflatus in the human spirit, the springs of art, are, in their mystery, akin to the epochs of history, when a race which for centuries...
...word for her seething Indonesian subjects last week. In her first speech from the throne in six years, she addressed them across the distant barricades. Promising-as she had promised before (TIME, Dec. 14, 1942)-partnership in a "Netherlands Commonwealth," she said: "Ideas of revenge do not possess us, nor does the establishment of colonial domination...
...international police force possess the world's only legal stockpile of atomic bombs...
...stakes were high. Besides the simple question of sovereignty-and the complex question of one people's right or duty to possess another-the riches of the Indies were involved. They lay in a galaxy of 3,000 lush islands, sitting astride the equator and peopled by a polyphyletic mass of 72 million souls...
Said the Speech: "Canada . . . should possess a distinctive national flag. You will be asked to appoint a select committee ... to consider a suitable design. . . . The Government also considers that it is advisable to ... clarify the definition of Canadian citizenship...