Word: possessing
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Andrews does not possess, however, the formidable reputation of Thompson, perhaps the most powerful church official in U.S. Protestantism, who ran the Northern Presbyterian division for 17 years. At congressional hearings and meetings of the National Council of Churches, where he served as president, and the World Council of Churches, he has long been an articulate voice for the liberal position on such issues as abortion, nuclear disarmament and U.S. policy in Central America. Andrews is of similar mind but has been less outspoken...
...European art film that rarely accelerates into the power drive of a slick Hollywood vehicle. Instead it tells its story in the form of a hashish pipedream conjured up by Noodles, slipping back to memories of 1921 and forward to a nightmare of 1968 as whim and reverie possess this gangster on the lam. Leone is less interested in arousing an audience's easier emotions than in presenting, at a dispassionate distance, the horror of two men warily walking toward each other on a tightrope suspended above the snake pit of their , deepest compulsions...
...several occasions, Graves said he risked losing his office on matters of principle. "The college president has very little real authority," he concluded, "but he has all he needs." Ultimately, however, scant the "real" authority presidents exercise, they possess more prominence and more authority than any single person on campus...
...girl." With the body of a girl and the face of a thirty-year-old, Ms. Collins has demonstrated only that she is a biological oddity (or the product of a lot of surgery and Jane Fonda classes). The great majority of women in her age range, however, do possess faces and bodies which have marked the passage of time. The media hype surrounding Ms. Collins and others like her only intensifies an unpleasant pressure on the mature woman to try desperately to reverse the natural process of aging--if she wants to have any chance whatsoever of remaining attractive...
...departing Libyans had left time bombs or booby traps behind, police used a remote-controlled shotgun to blast open a rear door of the building. Searchers crawled through the Victorian sewers beneath the square to make sure that the Libyans had not disposed of gelignite they were thought to possess by flushing it down a toilet. By nightfall, all 70 rooms in the embassy had been examined and no explosives found. Detectives speculated that the murder weapon and any unused ammunition for it had been removed by the departing Libyans in diplomatic bags, which under the Vienna Convention...