Word: possession
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...slow drift apart, Antarctica was attached to South America, Africa, India and Australia as part of a great landmass that scientists call Pangaea (Greek for whole earth). In strata similar to those of its long-separated continental cousins, Antarctica, like the tip of South America and southeastern Australia, may possess uranium...
...safe haven in the U.S., it is hard to imagine the horrors, the sorrow and bitterness that have been the lot of so many of the world's children. It is a miracle that most of these youngsters still possess some of the wonder of childhood, along with compassion and understanding...
...stinging 24-page opinion, Judge Terence Evans said: "He was rough, sometimes careless. He did not possess good medical judgment." The Air Force transfer from Lackland to Milwaukee, the judge suspected, was a way "to get Dr. Stanford off its hands for a while to prohibit scandal and further dissension among the doctors." The $1.8 million award must be paid by the Government under existing law. As for Stanford, he has retired from the military and practices at the highly rated Miami Heart Institute. Myers is now surgeon general of the Air Force, its top-ranking medical officer...
...Snark is a poem about being and nonbeing, an existential poem, a poem of existential agony. The Bellman's map is the map that charts the course of humanity; blank because we possess no information about where we are or whither we drift. The Snark is, in Paul Tillich's fashionable phrase, every man's ultimate concern. This is the great search motif of the poem, the quest for an ultimate good. But this motif is submerged in a stronger motif, the dread, the agonizing dread, of ultimate failure. The Boojum is more than death...
...Snark is a poem about being and nonbeing, an existential poem, a poem of existential agony. The Bellman's map is the map that charts the course of humanity; blank because we possess no information about where we are or whither we drift. The Snark is, in Paul Tillich's fashionable phrase, every man's ultimate concern. This is the great search motif of the poem, the quest for an ultimate good. But this motif is submerged in a stronger motif, the dread, the agonizing dread, of ultimate failure. The Boojum is more than death...