Word: possessives
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They persisted in examining PBH in isolation from other academic and extra-curricular activities that possess in Mr. Bryce's horrified term the "carte blanche of permanent subsidy." Throughout their proceedings we were treated as pensioners to the University obligated to justify, at each step, that we have a legitimate place here. Do the following suggest that we were taken seriously: the exhortation to PBH to "get its head together," the reduction of our budget because we could not place all the students who came to PBH this Fall, and the condescension of asking us questions as though...
Elwin, Boatwright, and Edelman were convicted of illegal possession of firearms without firearm identification cards, and conspiracy to unlawfully possess firearms. Boatwright received concurrently-running six-month sentences on both counts. Edelman and Elwin received 30-day sentences on each charge, with the prison terms running consecutively...
...Burkes are good, kind, loving, possess high moral and ethical standards and want the children, what more should...
...Gertrude came to think of Picasso as her spiritual brother. In 1913, Leo moved out, taking his favorite pictures with him. "Cezanne and Matisse," he noted sternly, "have permanently interesting qualities. Picasso might have had-if he had developed his gifts instead of exploiting those that he did not possess. The general situation of painting here is loathsome with its Cubico-futuristic tommy rotting." The Stein collection was farther dispersed after the deaths of Leo and Gertrude. As a tribute to a vanished era, Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art has temporarily brought it together again: it includes seven...
...other hand, you possess an unfashionable commitment to education; if you feel that art can both refine man's sensibilities and alter the world he lives in, then you may find Mr. Sarris's autcurist flag a more than slightly distasteful emblem of the liberal bourgeois' 50's and 60's frivolity...