Word: repossessable
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...does not agree with critics who accuse the back-up centers of fomenting social unrest. "All our litigation is achieving is due process of law. It's something so primitive I'm embarrassed to talk about it in a civilized society." For instance, he says, an auto dealer can repossess a car on which he claims there is a default of payments without even notifying the owner. "All we're asking is that the consumer be given a chance to make his case," he explains...
...passion and his own sensibilities into the work. The book seems as much the personal task of a California intellectual, a piece of retrospective idealization, as it does a history. Starr writes that his narrative is the work of memory rather than analysis and that he wished to repossess the past, make it live again through his thoughts...
Joyce idolized Ibsen, and the two artists have much in common. Like Joyce, Ibsen lived by "silence, exile and cunning," fleeing Norway to live abroad for 27 years. Both men abandoned their native countries physically and yet were able to repossess and be possessed by them psychically and aesthetically. As a parallel to the Greek dictum "Know thyself," both Ibsen and Joyce say "Free thyself." This is no faddish preachment to "do your own thing" but a call to an austere heroism and indomitability that dares to stand alone...
...shows, "another wants to speak -one I know you love." Mrs. Klug's head lolls to one side. She sighs. The assembly holds its breath. "My beloved," intones God the Father. "A long time ago I created this hill, and I have come now in this day to repossess it. It will bring millions of souls to me." Then, incredibly on such a clear day, thunder rumbles in the hills. Fran Klug rubs her eyes. But it does not take a sign to confirm the faith of her followers. They have already formed a corporation for Fran...
...Viet Cong recruiters-at a rate of up to 7,000 a month in the mid-1960s. If local allegiance to the Communists lapsed, it was often renewed later when, in towns newly pacified by U.S. troops, the old landlords rolled up in South Vietnamese army Jeeps to repossess their lands...