Word: possessives
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...biggest guerrilla group, and of the overall PLO command, had already summoned ambassadors from other Arab states and told them: "Will you kindly inform your governments that King Hussein, with mature consideration, has drawn up a detailed plan which is bound to end in a blood bath? I possess irrefutable proof that he intends to liquidate the Palestinian resistance." In Amman, Damascus and Baghdad, guerrilla radios suddenly began crackling with curiously coded messages. "The dinner is hot," said one. "Ghazi is marching to Haifa," said another. In plainer language, the fedayeen command advised its men to "keep your finger...
...unhappiness, and refuses to leave until every social force that contributes to human suffering is dealt with? Will whole new realms of discrepancy open up? Is that vision of the city, of totally insoluble chaos, a correct one? The revolution, whose insatiable thirst for action we would allow to possess our selves, where will it go? Organizing, building dream cities with understandable electricity, waiting for the big apocalyptic brawl. How is one ever to assure oneself of the immediacy and solidity of one's vision, amid what often seems its complete transparency? What strength is there to take...
...Hubris, A symphony orchestra is one of civilization's most highly and delicately collaborative creations. To preside over one requires an odd mixture of mind, heart and common sense as well as a less tangible quality sometimes called animal magnetism, or sheer sex appeal. Thomas seems to possess all these qualities in good measure. For one so successful and so young, he also seems to have a remarkably good balance between humility and hubris. In rehearsal he has no hesitation in asking the orchestra's advice on how to get effects. "At the end of last season...
...phenomenon. In areas of the world where the right combination of wind, current and slope of the continental shelf occurs, cold water from the ocean depths sometimes churns up to the surface. Laden with nutrients from decomposed sea life that has settled to the ocean deeps, these rising currents possess extraordinary fertilizing power. Once they reach the upper level of the ocean, where sunlight penetrates, they turn it into a garden of phyto-plankton-the tiny floating plants that are the bottom link in the sea's food chain. Actually the "upwelling" occurs only in a few areas like...
...Featur'd like him, like him with friends possess...