Word: possession
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy's 15 modern battleships, only the Missouri is now in active service, 14 are now assigned to the Zipper Fleet. The big ships still possess some utility as antiaircraft support for carrier forces. But even the Navy's crustiest battleship admirals concede that the day of the battlewagon is all but done...
Most editorialists, Brucker guessed, are moved by the "prophet motive." But the role "calls for more knowledge, time and energy than they possess. Most. . . are so busy that they stay in their offices, read the headlines, and say what they can about the news. No wonder the product is often dreary." Considering the pressures against them, it was also no wonder, he said, that many ducked local controversies and took refuge in faraway topics...
...times a kind of megalomania seemed to possess her. At a dinner party she remarked to a friend: "You see those s.o.b.s dining in my home. As long as I can feed them, serve them champagne and have a larger bank account than theirs, I can buy and sell even their souls...
...France, Washington to the U.S. For good measure, he rang in the Athens of Pericles and the Rome of the Caesars. His clincher: "Canada may have a future greater than that of the countries I have mentioned . . .* It has possibilities of development that no other country begins to possess...
...great cousins of the Western world, on whose solidarity that world's future so heavily depended, were divided by an issue which seemed to possess an almost infinite capacity for generating bitterness-Palestine...