Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more than sobering to note that several towns have reacted to Morton Groves' handgun ban by swinging to the opposite extreme. A 1982 law in Kennesaw, Georgia, requires the head of every household to possess a gun and ammunition. In fact, the town went so far as to "supply just about any sort of firearm" to those who couldn't buy them. It is a wonder that they did not enact mandatory target practice. This law represents not just a legal response to local gun control, but an armed response. It is as if the NRA is readying itself...
...classics are not the only works subject to constant reinterpretation. Some modern books have gone through several translations. Alexander Solzhenitsyn, dissatisfied with some of the first English versions of his works, insisted upon new ones as soon as he emigrated to the U.S. Other demanding authors, who possess a greater command of foreign tongues, have decided that self-translation is best. Nabokov, whose early work was written in Russian, rendered Laughter in the Dark into English. He also turned Lolita, which was written in English, into Russian. Samuel Beckett, an Irishman who writes mostly in French, has translated his plays...
...ears lie back flat, and the pink tongue lolls in the aftermath of exhaustion. The creature is attended, none too reverently, by brown pragmatic dwarfs. One cannot imagine that a more rhetorical horse-one of Rubens' baroque equine wardrobes, say, all flourishing hoofs and cascading mane-could possess the same intensity. Hambletonian may have been sired by a classical frieze, but his only foal would be the horse in Guernica, thrusting its outraged neck toward the indifferent sky of the 20th century. -By Robert Hughes
...opinion). In fact, though, no such irrational fear of the unknown is indicated by this bipartisan condemnation of any outside attempt to arm Nicaragua beyond its legitimate needs. If MiGs are delivered to Nicaragua, then it will merely highlight and confirm the long-standing desire of the Sandinistas to possess far more military power than they could possibly need for their own regional security...
...flurry of liberal activity, followed by its exhaustion, a regrouping and then another flurry. They maintain that the Reagan administration is simply presiding over a national rest period, like that of Eisenhower, in which the country can regain its national jubilance. The liberals must wait it out until we possess enough confidence to resume our battle with the social diseases...