Word: possessiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is just one factor which weighs in favor of the underdogs. They possess three pitchers of the type which has consistently troubled the Yankees. Bob Miller, Jim Konstanty, and Ken Heintzelman are slow-ballers...
Since Lowell, Eliot, and Kirkland possess the most experienced players and the largest squads, coaches pick them as this year's big three. But there are always the unpredictable teams like Dudley which may upset all predictions, they are quick...
Dragging Feet. On paper, the nations of non-Communist Europe could overmatch the basic resources of Communist Europe. On each side of the Iron Curtain live about 250 million people. The Europeans to the west of the Curtain possess greatly superior technical know-how and industrial capacity. They can, for instance, make 50 million tons of steel a year against the 28 million-ton capacity of Russia and its satellites. Yet if West Germany's 50 million people and 15 million-ton steel capacity should pass into Red control, preponderance would pass to the Reds. Even with the German...
...long-suffering Judge Medina, heckled and insulted by the Reds' lawyers, had leaned over backward to be just. "If at times he did not conduct himself with the imperturbability of a Rhadamanthus [he] showed considerably greater self-control and forbearance than it is given to most judges to possess...
...printed, Pre-Condition No. 9 read: ". . . It is necessary for the party [to enlist] the best elements of the progressive fighters, who possess enough devotion to be the real representatives of the reactionary proletariat." Next day the paper apologized for "an unforgivable error in our typesetting department [which] confused the sense. [It] should of course have read: 'the revolutionary proletariat.' The editorial collective will take the necessary measures...