Word: possessions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...computerized fact vampire, as House Subcommittee Chairman Cornelius Gallagher and some others view it, would thirstily suck up data about millions of Americans from some 20 separate Government bureaus ranging, from the Social Security Administration and the Federal Reserve Board to the Census and Internal Revenue Bureaus, which already possess vast information stockpiles of their...
...Brecht. Despite his seemingly stubborn Marxism, Brecht is intimately concerned with the existence problem. His plays are drenched in fatality, and to call fate "economic necessity" is to change the name without changing the game. While they do not all belong to the theater of the absurd, these playwrights possess that initial recognition of absurdity that, Camus argues, comes to one in the midst of deadening routines. In the opening scene of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger, Jimmy Porter hurls a newspaper to the floor and says: "Why do I do this every Sunday? Even the book...
...Possessive Pretension. On the other hand, McNeill stresses, the compound is often used to extremes, especially by those who pretend to possess a degree of technical knowledge that they do not have. Establishing a "pretension index" based on the length of nominal compounds and their frequency of use, he discovered that in their speeches, members of Congress were even more compound-conscious than NASA engineers. A space-technology magazine was a worse offender. It printed 300% more six-word compounds than did written NASA reports...
...partly by Nikita Khrushchev's famous "wars of national liberation" speech, in which he indicated that Russia regarded guerrilla warfare as the Communist strategy of the future, the Kennedy Administration abandoned massive retaliation in favor of a strategy of flexible response. This concept dictated that the U.S. must possess the means to respond with appropriate degrees of force to any level of provocation. It remains the nation's basic military policy...
...keen susceptibility to the grandeur of nature." His name is Valancourt, and his idea of passionate lovemaking is to beseech, if Emily thinks him "not unworthy such honour," whether he "might be permitted sometimes to enquire after your health." She, almost fainting with emotion: "I will acknowledge that you possess my esteem." He: "O Emily! this moment is the most sacred of my life...