Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...does he do it? What divine-or possibly sinister-gift does the man possess? This question has often struck dazed spectators of thin, hollow-eyed Msgr. Fulton John Sheen's success, year after year, in converting Americans to Catholicism-Columnist Heywood Broun, Capitalist Henry Ford II, Communist Louis Budenz, Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce and hundreds of others...
Senator Ball added a cogent argument: "What the Senator from Florida proposes is that we strip ourselves of the only real military power we still possess, the atomic bomb, and then confer with Russia about future security and peace. We might enter such a conference with clean hands, but . . . we would enter it committed in advance by our own impotence to a policy of appeasement...
That is about the only stage talent Danny does not possess. Even his first performance, as a watermelon seed in a play at Brooklyn's P.S. 149, showed he had a clown's heart. He was 5½ years...
Enigma. In Grand Rapids, Kenneth Franklin, found to possess 50 pairs of loaded dice and less than $15, was arrested for "being unable to give a satisfactory account of himself...
When it was over, an odd jubilance seemed to possess the dissolving crowds, as though they had seen some greatness in themselves mirrored out in the street. At the reviewing stand Slim Jim Gavin, relaxing at last, touched thumb and forefinger lightly into a circle to tell what he thought of the men who had marched behind...