Word: possessives
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Experience shows that among nuclear powers it is the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. that share the main responsibility for the development of events in the world. They possess the major arms potential, and therefore the levers of influence on world development are in their hands. This is not a hegemonism of some nations over others. But the truth must be faced squarely that it is with the active participation of the Soviet Union and the U.S. that a number of treaties and agreements have in the past few decades been signed that restrain the proliferation of nuclear weapons, ban hostile...
...doomed. We may surpass each other in the production of a specific type of arms, but when we speak of the approximate parity of forces, both in your country and ours, we consider the totality of all the weapons that the Soviet Union, the U.S. and their allies possess...
...Kennedy and Mondale both preach the same old-time Democratic religion, and therefore appeal to something of the same constituency-even though Kennedy may still possess a certain magic of political celebrity that transcends ideologies. Jonathan Moore, a moderate Republican who is head of the Institute of Politics at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, believes that the first Democratic reaction to Carter's defeat will be a lament that the Georgian "ran as a Republican," that the party must regain its soul by reasserting itself as the champion of the poor and minorities, that it must turn...
...smothering attentions. His wife's evidence-supported by his own dreams and memories-reveals that what seemed a marriage of near exemplary closeness was actually a case of almost childlike mutual dependency. A psychiatrist insists that men kill because it is only through murder that one can totally possess another. He warns that Peter must now be regarded as a potential suicide because, having murdered his wife's surrogate in an enactment of possessive passion, he must now kill himself in order finally to possess himself as well...
...most of his characters reach on the subject that they ponder. If they are "marionettes," then it follows that they are controlled by invisible strings, by forces that the individual himself cannot perceive and that must elude even wise analysis. If this is so, then the whole effort to possess someone else, even in the radical way that Peter used, is absurd, as is the effort to understand it in conventional moral and emotional terms...