Word: possesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Irish (70% of the Boston vote), the Italians, French Canadians, Poles, Russian Jews. Boston's best can and do keep the whip hand over bank directorates, and in the overstuffed gentlemen's clubs on Boston's near-sacred Beacon Hill. But what political power they still possess comes strictly from Yankee trader ingenuity. Thus, by enactment of the conservative state legislature, Boston cannot choose its own police chief-the governor picks him. And bluebloods.cannot elect a mayor in Boston, so they pack behind the Irishman most agreeable to them (like present Mayor Maurice Tobin...
...then let's not lead a news broadcast with some such locution as this: 'Allied troops were believed today to be progressing toward Y.' We simply don't know, and there's no use pretending to any knowledge we don't possess. Far better to do it this way: 'Nothing has been released for the past 24 hours concerning the Allied attack on Y. The last official word...
...Eighth Air Force. Matter-of-factly, as though there were no point in further denial, he referred to "the ruins of Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Cologne and Kassel" and of "all other towns, great and small," which have been damaged. Said he: "If millions of people no longer possess anything to lose, they can only gain something...
...portraying him in the teeth of war. But it produces only a plausible symbol, not a flesh-&-blood human being. Sam is made too articulate about what ails him and not convincing enough about why he alters. Nor does the play, which distrusts the shock tactics of melodrama, possess the skill to be vivid for long without...
...Marshall, in his report to the Secretary of War, reaffirmed Pershing's principles. Said the Chief of Staff: "Our generals . . . are selected from men who have measured up to the highest standards of military skill, who have demonstrated a comprehensive understanding of modern methods of warfare, and who possess the physical stamina, moral courage, strength of character, and flexibility of mind necessary to carry the burdens which modern combat conditions impose...