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Word: possessives (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lusterman and Norman don't possess Chassler's presence, her power to absorb an audience with each slight twitter. The two perform well in the idiom of Chassler's movement and occasionally hit upon the nexus of subjectivity/objectivity. Yet neither command Chassler's magic...

Author: By Susan A. Manning, | Title: Lines Almost Spoken | 3/18/1976 | See Source »

...cummerbunds are "de rigeur." A favorite social disease is known fondly as "The Syph". All is familiar and in its place, for good or for worse. You are meant to enter his world of social fatuousness, accept his intimate chit-chat as personal conseil and assume that you possess all the sports cars, villas and yachts that are referred to. As a result, you and your mythical antagonist--i.e., the ever-present social enemy--become the protagonists. The verbal bouts in which you both engage are conducted in two dialects: "pukka", to which you, the sporting aristocrat, are sometimes entitled...

Author: By Christopher Agee, | Title: Making It | 3/18/1976 | See Source »

Student activists at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst are taking a novel approach to the problem of organizing a student body. In an attempt to institutionalize student power, they are trying to form a student union which would possess all the legal powers of a collective bargaining unit...

Author: By Joseph L. Contreras, | Title: UMass Organizers Want Student Union | 2/18/1976 | See Source »

...consciously aimed at hurting the six students as much as possible. Rather than meeting with the parties concerned and finding a moderate solution, the Pians chose to act immediately and drastically. Such extreme action is not in keeping with the judicious and impartial attitude a house master could possess...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FREE THE SOUTH HOUSE SIX | 2/3/1976 | See Source »

Point two: What is the definition for Palestine? If I look at the Palestinian National Covenant of 1968, only Palestinian Arabs possess the right of self-determination in the country. As long as the covenant practically says that the only way to liberate Palestine is by war, and the only definition of Palestine is a total Arab Palestine, how can Israel negotiate itself out of existence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME DIALOGUE: Israeli vs. Palestinian: Face to Face | 2/2/1976 | See Source »

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