Word: possessions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This is mostly a matter of semantics to me. People try to separate North Vietnamese Communists from South Vietnamese Communists. No such separation exists. They are both Communists. And as far as I am concerned, as a religious man, the ideology they possess is much more dangerous than the guns they possess...
...Hayakawa has no illusions. When ETC., the quarterly review of the International Society for General Semantics, devoted a special issue to LSD and other psychedelic drugs, Editor Hayakawa chose a few acid words for acid heads. Wrote he: "Most people haven't learned to use the senses they possess. I not only hear music, I listen to it. I find the colors of the day such vivid experiences that I sometimes pound my steering wheel with excitement. And I say, why disorient your beautiful senses with drugs and poisons before you have half discovered what they...
Today there are only 600 Samaritans left, living in villages in Israel and Jordan. Every year they gather for Passover at their temple at Mount Gerizim in Israel, still convinced that they possess the true faith. They pray for the coming of their messiah, who will reward the righteous at long last...
...troubled conscience. Going off on tangents, staging diversionary incidents, piling on self-indulgent rhetoric: all these would have been enough to spoil the play. But Arden has a much more drastic flaw. He tries to practice consensus drama, a contradiction in terms. For Serjeant Musgrave's Dance to possess any intrinsic vitality, there would have to be a respectable body of thought holding that war is heavenly. As it is, Arden is merely preaching sermons to the converted, and universal agreement is the most potent sleeping powder in the theater...
...cited the recent crash of an American B-52 bomber a Spain as an example of the danger that foreign military bases pose to countries that do not even possess nuclear weapons. The accident resulted in the scattering of radioactive particles from two bombs in part of the Spanish countryside...