Word: posseses
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They were local boys, safely down from the hills, where they had been fellaghas (nationalist outlaws), hunted by posses of steel-helmeted French troops. They had come in obedience to one of the strangest truces in modern history: a French promise to forgive past offenses, and give them immunity from...
The first, and perhaps the simplest method, is to reply, "Why no, I haven't been across, not recently that is. Of course, I lived there until I was eight, but then . . . you know . . . the Nazis . . . had to leave (your voice should break about here) . . . wouldn't go back for...
Last week, casting sentiment to the winds, the city fathers of New Delhi took action at last against the 4,000-odd free cows and bulls at large in their city. A task force of 100 picked cow catchers, armed with ropes and long poles, gathered each night at dusk...
Harvard hasn't beaten Princeton since 1946, and the Tigers posses the best offensive record in the Ivy league. But the varsity football team, even without Dick Clasby in the starting lineup, is a confident, competent football team, the best that Lloyd Jordan has coached here. It has a strong...
Kenya last week was like Dakota Territory in the days of Sitting Bull (floruit 1876). Painted savages chanted bloodcurdling oaths, swooped down on lonely farmsteads to burn and scalp. The white settlers and their wives ate and slept with pistols at their sides; their vigilante posses, using native trackers, were...