Word: possessiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defense, has given fans hope for the future, still lacks a good offense. Sacks, perhaps the most consistent scorer, still tallies most of his points from the foul line. The team needs the eight-field-goal-a-night performer that so many of the other Ivy schools possess...
...pearly high notes here, dropping into gutty dramatic tones there. She sang the great second-act aria, Vissi d'arte (rendered in English as "Love of beauty") with a flair worthy of the Met. Except for clumsy phrases in the translation ("How your hatred enhances my resolve to possess you!"), and a phlegmatic but overbearing orchestra, TV's first Tosca was a rattling good show...
...assertion by Robert Maynard Hutchins . . . is in remarkably poor taste. Fortunately for Mr. Hutchins, one needn't possess a good sense of humor to become a U.S. Senator from California...
...limited its reply. Korea behind them, the Communists redoubled their interest in Indo-China. The U.S. answered with a threat of "massive retaliation"-which was not carried out. In those cases, the Reds relied on a U.S. reluctance which will be obviously much stronger when, by 1960, the Russians possess the means of annihilating...
Among the lesser ambitions of Communist Dictator Stalin was to possess the world's largest building. Plans of a Palace of the Soviets, taller than New York's Empire State building, went astray somewhere in World War II, but in the last five years of his life Stalin ordered eight skyscrapers built in Moscow. Rising 20 to 38 stories out of Moscow's sprawling slums, and occupied exclusively by Communists and Communist undertakings, they stand today, huge omnipresent memorials to Communist contempt for the comfort and well-being of the common people...