Word: possession
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...letter to the New York Herald Tribune, a reader suggested a prayer for landlords, taken from the Book of Common Prayer of England's Edward VI, who died in 1553: "We heartily pray Thee to send Thy Holy Spirit into the hearts of them that possess the grounds and pastures of the earth, that they, remembering themselves to be Thy tenants, may not rack or stretch out the rents of their houses or lands, nor yet take unreasonable fines or money after the manner of covetous worldlings, but so to let them out that the inhabitants thereof...
...dust and heat of the arena, see you as the great Chief Justice, Lord Mansfield, so often saw you, as your clients . . . and so many others saw you when they listened, spellbound and enthralled, while you were championing not their rights alone, but the rights of all men who possess the priceless heritage of liberty under English law. . . . Burst your marble fetters! Strip off your cerements of oil and canvas...
...times of stress "miracle men" have a habit of bobbing up with "messages" for a world in search of signs and wonders. Some swallow swords, some are buried alive, some sleep on tacks. Others-the more conservative kind-merely possess "supernatural powers...
...four days, climb several mountains, and then wrestle on an empty stomach. There was also a system of genetic selection. During the avocado harvest, young men and girls danced naked among the avocado trees. Then the girls, given a head start, dashed up the nearest mountain. Any man might possess the girl he caught-if he had enough energy left by that time...
...work out our entire raw materials program as a part of our foreign policy. It is well known that we are short of many very important commodities. In formulating our new foreign policy we should seek to obtain the raw materials which we need and do not possess ourselves. This would be helpful to us and to the world and would be a self-respecting solution of several serious problems at one and the same time...