Word: possession
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government has exclusive jurisdiction over its own forces in all circumstances. The Justice and State Departments flatly deny this interpretation, hold that in law the host state has the last word; they add that status-of-forces agreements guarantee rights to the U.S. that it would not otherwise legally possess. Bricker adds that allied countries that want the protection of U.S. forces must in the final analysis accept U.S. military laws-or forego the protection. But this hard-boiled position neglects the fact that G.I.s are deployed in the interest of the U.S. as well as of the allies...
...their egotism is preferable to the deadly altruism of the '30s, whose intellectuals minded everybody's business and loved mankind with a dreadful abstract love often indistinguishable from hatred. But Lucky Jim and pals also possess the defect of their egotistical virtue. Determined not to pledge a false allegiance, they reject all allegiances as false...
...took over. His appointment as Governor General did not meet with universal approval. The London Times pointed out that the position of first Governor General calls for a "man with some knowledge of conditions in the West Indies." Said the Times: "Whatever his other capabilities, Lord Hailes does not possess the deep familiarity with emergent countries which such a role demands...
...paper, Yale figures to eke out a win of from two to ten points. Actually, the Crimson possess an intangible something which propels it to its regular weekly upset wins...
...Iran struck an isolated pocket of oil under extremely high pressure or whether Qum is one huge continuous field. If it is the field that Iranians-and some U.S. oilmen-believe it is, then it will take enormous amounts of cash and special know-how, more than the Iranians possess, to control the mighty gas pressures and extract the oil. In addition, a pipeline to get the oil to the Mediterranean coast would have to go over rugged mountains. Cost estimates for the pipeline alone run as high as half a billion dollars...