Word: possessiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This morning, a former Harvard freshman swimming captain will appear in Roxbury District Court on a charge that be threatened bodily harm to his brother-in-law. Other College athletes have undoubtedly had similar contact with the law, but none possess such fanatical passion for long distance swimming nor have been so sensationalized by the Boston Press...
...been so great that it is easy to forget anyone else in Europe is making any pictures at all. But the few Swedish movies that have trickled in the great flood prove that the big three don't have the same monopoly over quality which they seem to possess over quantity. Such films as Torment and The Great Adventure reveal the Swedes as masters of photographic technique with a special flair for subtle psychological themes...
Soul of a Peasant? Fanny delighted in a fairyland peopled with lovely and fantastically incompetent natives who were always either crying or laughing, and for ever trying to help. "Simi [the butler] ... is breaking everything we possess. He smiles with a kind tolerance when he smashes something precious, and is more like an English colonel than words can express...
...Ph.D.," says Astute, "will open more doors and make more of an impression than anything you could possibly possess." But the Rev. Dr. should not take himself too seriously: he would do well to pass up Toynbee's Study of History and devote his "selective" reading to denominational periodicals-the Biblical Bugle, the Biblical Trumpet., the Biblical Clarinet...
...extension of U.S. bases in the Philippines, objected that U.S. security guarantees were "vague and equivocal" (he wanted them "automatic"), opposed SEATO as "unduly provoking Red China," and launched a virulent attack on Magsaysay's recognition of South Viet Nam, "a despotic oligarchy" which "does not possess the most elementary attributes of sovereignty." Magsaysay, he charged, was acting as "an American puppet...