Word: possessor
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...performer who talks like that survive for even a minute in today's pop-music miasma of drugs, decadence and dowdy religiosity? If he is Singer-Composer John Denver, 29, the answer is yes. The possessor of long blond hair and a mellifluous, if reedy, tenor voice, the wearer of gold-rimmed glasses and neatly pressed shirts, Denver is the Tom Sawyer of rock-and he has acquired a vast following of Becky Thatchers and Aunt Pollys as well as a few Huck Finns...
...Chicago became the proud possessor of the world's first true skyscraper, the nine-story, steel-framed Home Insurance Co. building. Within a decade, however, New York City captured the tallest skyscraper lead-and held it. The champion until last month was Manhattan's 1,350-ft.-high, twin-towered World Trade Center, which tops the Empire State Building by 100 ft. But now, after a lapse of about 80 years, Chicago again boasts the tallest tower: the $150 million Sears, Roebuck & Co. building, which soars 1,450 ft. above the city...
...straight-A student at Los Angeles' Lycée Français. She is also a regular visitor to the University of Southern California, where she takes a course in music theory and continues violin instruction with Alice Schoenfeld, her teacher since Lilit was 7½. The proud possessor of a 1704 Stradivarius lent her by a Beverly Hills collector of fine musical instruments, Lilit practices one hour at 6:30 a.m., one hour after school, one hour just before bedtime -and professes not to mind it: "Practicing just makes me want to do it more...
Hedi managed him, mothered him-and watched their marriage fall apart. "We were still young when we married, and we just grew in different ways," says Solti today. Whatever the reason, Solti was soon known as the possessor of a wandering eye. All the old jokes about the casting couch were dragged out. There was gossip that he gave his paramours a white fur coat-and that there was an exorbitant number of white-coated women around London...
...doubt the mothers of many such infants are simply and directly told by their doctors that the children they carried for nine months were stillborn. The doctor thus participates in mercy-killing. Alas, the merciful physician--possessor of the "God syndrome"--giver and taker of life...