Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fermina repented immediately and suffered married life at leisure. In fact, her husband is a good man, and she hardly has a thought to spare for Florentino and his blighted life. For his part, Florentino resolves to keep himself spiritually pure for the moment when he will, someday, possess Fermina; in the meantime, he consoles himself with the physical companionship of women in order to learn more about his beloved. He writes down his impressions and amasses "some 25 notebooks, with 622 entries of long-term liaisons, apart from the countless fleeting adventures that did ^ not even deserve a charitable...
...pragmatism in any of this," says a former Panamanian official. "Of course Noriega needs to go. But, really, to have Administration officials tell reporters this and then indict him makes it impossible for him to step aside." The ex-official adds that whatever other qualities Noriega may possess, the Panamanian strongman has no end of stubborn pride...
...American nuclear attack, whereupon Chinese forces would retreat into the hinterlands and lure U.S. troops into a lethal trap. Mao suggested, Gromyko says, that the Soviet Union then join the assault on U.S. troops "with all its forces," an apparent reference to nuclear arms, which China did not possess until 1964. Gromyko writes of being "extremely surprised . . . because of the lightness with which he proclaimed a schedule of American aggression against China with the use of nuclear weapons, and how this aggression could be opposed." Their talk ended when Gromyko rejected Mao's scheme. (A Chinese official last week denied...
...power of an experienced, thorough campaign organization, the effectiveness of hard-hitting advertising and the priceless importance of being Ronald Reagan's heir presumptive in the Republican Party. Moreover, Bush has shown that he will not easily fold. For all the cliches about wimpiness, the Vice President does possess the proverbial fire in the belly. "If we learned anything," said Dole Consultant David Keene, "it's that we're going to have to knock him down. He won't fall down by himself...
Meanwhile, the Republicans possess their own electronic weapon: a phalanx of high-power computers housed in a gymnasium-size room at party headquarters in Washington. Among the treasures stashed in the G.O.P. machines is a collection of the Democratic candidates' long-forgotten gaffes, misstatements and contradictions, suitable for retrieval when the campaign heats up. The heart of the system, however, is the party's detailed voter-information list, which is used by Republican candidates to raise funds, identify potential supporters and get out the vote on Election Day. Carefully built up over the course of several congressional and presidential campaigns...