Word: possessives
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dying from a crevice that has been carved across his abdominal region. It is not long before Babe finds himself en during the dental ministrations of Szell, suffering horribly while the Nazi per forms some impromptu root-canal work in an attempt to extract information that Babe does not possess...
...Series. Haley, a 55-year-old retired Coast Guardsman who is best known as the co-author of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, may be the only black American to possess such precise details about his ancestry. Roots: The Saga of an American Family is Haley's memorial to that past. After twelve years of research and writing, delays and financial crises, the book is finally out. Yet it moves like a deep, slow-moving river that has always been there. For those who are unable or unwilling to read its 587 pages, Roots has been made a twelve...
Sterge, like most owners of professional teams, saw the Minutemen as an investment, but he did not possess a mattressfull of green bills. The thought that the Minutemen would one day be profitable, a false hope for most owners, must have lingered in his mind. This attitude is at the root of the mass garage sale and the team's downfall...
...there is another possibility. Given the thesis that Southerners possess a certain talent for law, for government and politics -you remember the early Virginians-then maybe those talents will now be free to manifest themselves. Perhaps the South owes the country the debt. The North saved the Union the first time. I'm slightly optimistic that the South will save it a second time...
...reminds one how fused by the current of high artificiality the aesthetic and sexual fancies of the time were apt to be. Every Parisian male wanted to possess Cléo de Mérode, Liane de Pougy and their thespian sisters-the "great horizontals." But they were also votive objets de culte, focuses of sexual snobbery. In a like way, the most rarefied work of the art nouveau craftsmen was not accessible to a wide public. As the style spread through the decorative arts-furniture making, inlay, bookbinding, jewelry, glass-too much labor and fine material were devoured...