Word: possessions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Indeed, man's capacity for misunderstanding his neighbor seems inexhaustible. Take sex. Thomas Jefferson believed that apes raped black women as one way to climb a notch on the social scale. Even today, people like to think that apes possess a savage and unrestrained libido. Actually, they are scarcely interested in sex at all. In 466 hours of directly observing gorillas in the wild, Anthropologist George Schaller witnessed only two copulations and one unsuccessful try. Furthermore, gorilla swains are sadly underendowed by human standards: the erect male organ measures a scant...
...Threat. Against this setting, President Johnson last week openly invited the Soviets to agree finally to end decades of mutual distrust. "Both of us possess unimaginable power," said the President. "Our responsibility to the world is heavier than that ever borne by two nations at the same time. Our common task is now this: to search for every possible area of agreement that might enlarge, no matter how slightly or how slowly, the prospects for cooperation." Solemnly he declared: "The dogmas and vocabularies of the cold war were enough for one generation. The world must not now founder...
Neck-High. But the fact is that the South Vietnamese do not possess the men or equipment or mobility to conduct sustained operations. Thus for some time they have barely been able to hold their own. Since the rice-rich Delta must be cleaned out if the war is to be won, what is clearly required is American manpower and gunpower. As a result, U.S. military commanders have been giving increasing attention to the need for U.S. troops in what has been the exclusive war of the Delta's IV Corps commander, Lieut. General Dang Van Quang...
Never before has tactical air power been used so intensively to help fight a ground war. As a result, American pilots in Viet Nam must possess a versatility unknown to their World War II counterparts. They man a varied flock of craft ranging from the sleek, 1,500-mile-an-hour F-4C Phantom jets to windmilling Skyraiders. Their work is peculiarly dangerous, involving multiple threats from sky and ground; more than 300 American planes have been shot down. It takes guts and guile...
...Ungrateful Belgium, you shall not possess my bones...