Word: possessives
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fitzsimmons's appearance on the team next year will provide Coach Harrison with some interesting problems. With James Brown and Floyd Lewis already proven stars and Tony Jenkins up from the freshmen, the Crimson will possess four players who are accustomed to carrying a team's scoring burden...
...Faulkner will need all the shrewdness and negotiating skill he is said to possess. Former Home Affairs Minister William Craig, whom Faulkner defeated in a 26-to-4 vote of the Unionist M.P.s, has already warned the new Prime Minister: "If he doesn't respond to the needs of our country, he'll be cut down ruthlessly...
...atrocity of the war in Indochina as an overriding reason for suspension of the principle, it simply can't be done. Even if we excuse the intolerance exhibited Friday night, the spectre of other men in other places at other times who, while not sharing our views, do possess a measure of the disruption's intolerance, haunts us. Ultimately we must accept the principle of academic freedom-at least as it is exhibited in the freedom of speech-if only to save ourselves from our own moral superiority-and that of others...
Berrigan: I am arguing that we are particularly dangerous as a nation-because of the nuclear resources and armaments we possess, and also because of the ideological frenzy induced in us by 20 years of a "cold war." I would never deny that other nations are also dangerous ... I never expect decent activity from great power, whether it be church power or state power...
...remarkable decision, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has just found for the Philadelphia judges. Because the three branches of state government are coequal, said the court, "the independent judiciary must possess rights and powers coequal with its functions and duties, including the right and power to protect itself against any impairment thereof." To the city's plea of poverty, the court said: "The deplorable financial conditions in Philadelphia must yield to the constitutional mandate that the judiciary shall be free and independent and able to provide an efficient and effective system of justice. The court does not have unlimited power...